InfantSEE®

On Saturday, May 8, 2010, Bright Eyes Family Vision Care will celebrate its first “Baby Day.” The goal of Baby Day is to provide InfantSEE® exams for infants, as well as increase awareness of the link between vision and a child’s overall development.  “An InfantSEE® exam is designed for early detection of eye and vision problems in babies, but many parents don’t realize their children can be evaluated so young,” says Dr. Nathan Bonilla-Warford, owner of Bright Eyes Family Vision Care.

InfantSEE® is a public health initiative developed by the American Optometric Association (AOA) that provides no-cost eye and vision assessments for infants between the ages of 6 and 12 months. Clinical research has shown that at 6 months, the average baby has reached a number of critical developmental milestones, making this an appropriate age for the first eye and vision assessment. This coincides with the AOA and American Public Health Association recommendations for eye evaluations.

InfantSEE® exams complement a pediatrician’s routine vision screenings. However, InfantSEE® exams are more thorough than typical childhood vision screenings. Although infants cannot speak, optometrists have the clinical education, training and experience, as well as the instruments and procedures, to provide non-invasive eye exams for any non-verbal patients such as infants. More information and a video about infant eye exams are available at http://infantsee.org.

Let your family, friends and parents know that Hellerstein & Brenner Vision Center, P.C. are InfantSEE® providers. Thanks to Bright Eyes Family Vision Care for their passion and motivation to spread the word of the importance of vision in learning and development!