Educational Resources

Clinical Papers:

• A New Visual Evoked Potential System for Visual Screening in Infants and Young Children (PDF)
• Visual Evoked Potential Standard (PDF)
• Predicting Potential Acuities in Amblyopes (PDF)

AAP Policy Statement:

• Eye Examination in Infants, Children, and Young Adults by Pediatricians (PDF)

News Articles:

• New Online Vision Assessment Tool Helps Alert Parents to Potential Eye Problems in Children
• Breakthrough in Vision Care (PDF)
• Chicago-Area Pediatricians Offering Unique Test To Detect Vision Problems In Children As Young As 6 Months
• Treating Amblyopia or “Lazy Eye”
• Kids’ Vision Problems Parents May be Missing (PDF)

Amblyopia and Undetected Visual Impairments in Young Children:

• National Institute of Health: “Amblyopia is fundamentally a neurologic disorder. To preempt the disease, we must first understand the disturbances in the developing brain that affect plasticity.” and “The key to treating amblyopia is early detection.”
• Children’s Eye Foundation – Economic Analysis of the Consequences of Failure to Prevent Childhood Blindness from Amblyopia by William E. Gibson, Ph.D.: “Put simply, vision loss from amblyopia is treatable and consequent blindness is preventable. Amblyopia has roughly the same infliction rates in children as diabetes has in the population as a whole…somewhere in the three to five percent range. And like diabetes, amblyopia is well worth treating early and widely in order to prevent mounting ongoing costs of living with the disease.”
• Prevent Blindness America: “According to the CDC, impaired vision can affect a child’s cognitive, emotional, neurologic and physical development by potentially limiting the range of experiences and kinds of information to which the child is exposed.”
• American Academy of Pediatrics – Identifying Infants and Young Children With Developmental Disorders in the Medical Home: An Algorithm for Developmental Surveillance and Screening: “Because development is dynamic in nature and surveillance and screening have limits, periodic screening with a validated instrument should occur so that a problem not detected by surveillance or a single screening can be detected by subsequent screening.”
• Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology – Visual Evoked Potentials in Infants and Children: “Summary: Visual evoked potential (VEP) studies are of great value in a wide variety of pediatric patients, including those with disorders of the sensory visual pathway and those at risk for visual pathway damage. VEPs are simple, non-invasive, and are particularly appropriate for infants and young children who cannot communicate visual symptoms or cooperate for standard vision assessment.”

Diopsys Pediatric Information & Education Series (PDF)

• August 2011 - Children’s Eye Health and Safety Awareness Month
  SURVEY: What Enfant practice tools do you use the most?
• July 2011 – The Enfant has the ability to catch older children
  SURVEY: General Comments and Suggestions
• June 2011 - Children’s Eye Foundation – 200,000 Children are born each year with vision problems
                           SURVEY: How do you like the new online supply order form?

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