Screening 3-Year-Olds for Visual Problems
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Ophthalmology (1950)
- Vol. 104 (1) , 33
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archopht.1986.01050130043016
Abstract
The article by Hammond and Schmidt1 in this issue of the Archives documents the feasibility of using a simple and inexpensive modality to test for visual problems in children 3 years and older. Moreover, the test can be administered rapidly and inexpensively by laypersons with a minimum of training. In fact, this test of the Random Dot E compared See also p 54. favorably with a battery of tests performed by more highly trained examiners. Since we have a test that is easy to administer, inexpensive, and reliable, we must ask ourselves: Why aren't we testing all of the children in the United States when they are 3 years of age? Not only are we not doing that, we are not even testing about 80% of our children for visual problems before they start school, according to an extensive survey of the status of visual screening in the UnitedKeywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- A Random Dot E Stereogram for the Vision Screening of ChildrenArchives of Ophthalmology (1950), 1986
- Preschool vision screening for amblyopia and strabismus. Programs, methods, guidelines, 1983Survey of Ophthalmology, 1983