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AOA Clinical Practice Guidelines:

Pediatric Eye and Vision Examination

1. Basis for Visual Development Prenatal Through Infancy
2. Developmental Aspect of Child Vision
3. Exam for Infants & Young Children
4. Infant Visual Development
5. Significance of Developmental Milestones
6. Visual Perception & Cognitive Development
7. Why Motor Development is Important

1. Infant vision (normal and abnormal ranges of refractive status in infant, toddler, and preschool populations)
2. Acuity / Binocularity / Stereopsis / Accommodation
3. Neurological / Cognitive / Behavioral
4. Developmental milestones
5. Piaget stages of development

Neurological / Psychological

a ambient / focal systems.

b. Parvo cellular / Magno cellular function

c. Perceptual Style (central, peripheral)

d. Impact of colored filters

e. Attention

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Vision: Its Development In Infant & Child

by Arnold Gesell, MD, Frances L. Ilg, MD and Glenna E. Bullis

#OEPAG92-X

Thinking Goes to School: Piaget’s Theory in Practice

By Hans G. Furth and Harry Wachs #XHW100

• Body schema, laterality, directionality
• Visual inter-sensory integration (visual motor, visual auditory, visual vestibular)
• Visual thinking (visualization, visual imagery)
• Perceptual style (reflective versus impulsive, central versus peripheral)