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Infants 0-3
Visual/Perceptual Components:
Vision is a set of skills and abilities, including 20/20 eyesight, that allows our eyes to function effectively with our body and brain. By the age of two, children should be able to--
- Fixate on an object
- Have the balance skills to sit up, stand and walk
- Respond to Social Interaction
- Problem Solve
- Explore cause and effect
- Grasp and manipulate objects
- Look for lost items
- Follow an object from any angle
- See smaller and smaller objects from farther and farther away
- Use the eyes, without moving the head, to track smaller objects over a longer period of time
- Judge distances accurately
- Shift eyes from one place to another
- Be able to stop and start the body on command
- Scribbles
- Eyes look
Watch for the following developmental warning signs:
- Red eyes, eye rubbing, closing or covering one eye, frequent sties
- Child doesn’t move, moves all the time, or doesn’t move all body parts
- Head too close or tilted when looking at books, writing/ coloring, or watching TV
- Does not demand to cut, color, and paste by age 4
- Not interested in balls and balloons
- Poorly coordinated for age
- Bumps into things in familiar surroundings
- Walked without creeping or crawling
- Content not to move for long periods of time
- Eyes not look straight
- Head movement rather than eye movement
- Spending extended time with exersaucers, jumpers or swings.
How We Address These Challenges:
These skills can be taught:
- Balance and gross and fine motor skills
- Eye-hand/Eye-foot coordination (throw-catch-kick)
- Fixate and track objects (Look at and follow)
- Understanding concepts like stop and start.
- Laterality and directionality to reduce the number of reversals
- Acuity
- Eyes working as a team (eyes look straight)
- Figure ground to deal with crowded or busy area
- Peripheral awareness of objects and people around you while attending to a task
- Visual attention and stamina
- Visual discrimination to see small differences
- Visual memory to remember what is seen
- Visual closure to see a whole when only a part is revealed
- Spatial relationships
Parent Comments:
Products to help:
- Vision Doesn’t Just Happen, It Develops
- Vision Development 0-3
- Hanging Ball to Free Floating Kit
- The Scarf Kit
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