With Former
President Jimmy Carter and Former First Lady Rosalynn
Carter as honorary spokespersons for the InfantSEE™
program, and The Vision Care Institute of Johnson &
Johnson Vision Care, Inc. promising multi-year support, InfantSEE™ has the potential to ensure early childhood
wellness care to include a professional eye and vision
assessment as a necessary step in an infant’s overall
health and wellness.
As you think about
your child’s developmental milestones, remember to
consider your child’s eye health. Because vision plays a
major role in infant development, visual health must be
checked early and regularly. In fact, the American
Optometric Association recommends that children receive
their first comprehensive eye assessment at 6 months of
age.
We are
pleased to provide your child’s first eye
assessment at no charge to you.
As participants in the
InfantSEE™ program, we look forward to helping you make
the most of your child’s future, by providing eye
assessments to children that are 6 to 12 months
old.
"As parents, we
regularly take our children to the dentist to help
prevent cavities. Likewise, we should take our babies to
the optometrist to help prevent potential eye and vision
problems. Given my
family’s experience managing vision problems that were
not caught early, I strongly encourage all parents with
babies to visit an optometrist for an InfantSEE™
assessment during the first year of their child’s life
and I applaud AOA for providing parents this
opportunity.” - Former
President Jimmy Carter.
One in every 10 children is at risk from undiagnosed eye and vision
problems, yet only 13 percent of mothers with children younger than
2 years of age said they had taken their babies to see an eye and
vision care professional for a regular check-up or well-care visit.
Moreover, many children at risk for eye and vision problems are not
being identified at an early age, when many of those problems might
be prevented or more easily corrected. Some 4.02 million children
were born in 2004, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In
approximately 4 percent, strabismus will develop, and amblyopia will
develop in 3 percent–this equates to as many as 100,000 infants born
each year who are at risk for serious eye and vision problems.
An InfantSEE™ assessment between 6
and 12 months of age is recommended to determine if an infant is at
risk for eye or vision disorders. Since many eye problems arise from
conditions that can be identified by an eye doctor in the infant’s
first year of life, you as a parent can give your infant a precious
gift with an InfantSEE™ assessment in addition to the wellness
evaluation of the eyes by your pediatrician or family practice
doctor.
Early intervention is critical
to successful and cost-effective
treatment. Despite the nation’s
present system of preschool
vision screening, there exists a
need for professional infant eye and vision
assessments. Unfortunately, during the course of their
young lives, most children probably never see an eye
care practitioner who can provide the kind of
professional eye assessment necessary to identify
critical eye and vision problems at an early stage, and
provide the necessary care and treatment.
InSight Optical has stepped forward to accept our public
health role and make a significant contribution in
the area of infants’ eye and vision health. The
American Optometric Association, with The Vision Care Institute of
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. as a working partner, has
launched InfantSEE™, a first-of-its-kind national program to provide
children professional eye and vision care earlier in life. The
program will address the early childhood segment of the pre-school
population, providing no-cost infant eye and vision assessments
before the age of one year.
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