As a parent, you strive to help your child develop into a healthy adult.  An important part of your child’s overall health maintenance program is regular professional vision care. Your child’s eyes must function properly to accomplish the many visual tasks he or she will encounter in the years ahead.

A child’s vision system is growing and developing especially during the first 5-6 years of life.  Children can have potentially debilitating eye conditions that may go undetected without a complete eye examination.  Uncorrected farsightedness, nearsightedness, astigmatism as well as a misalignment of the eyes can lead to permanently reduced vision or legal blindness. At Holt Eye Care, our doctors recommend the following guidelines for suggested eye exam schedules for children: 6 months, 3 years, 5 years and every 2 years after the age of 5.  Having these early evaluations allow our doctors to help identify potential problems.

Dr. Amy Cousineau participates in the InfantSee program, which provides a one-time no cost eye and vision assessment for babies 6, 10 or 12 months of age.

For more information on the InfantSee program visit www.infantsee.org.