American Academy Of Pediatrics Recommendations, please scroll down.

Questions Clinicians should ask parents about their child’s eye:

1. Does your child seem to see well?

2. Does your child hold objects close to his or her face when trying to focus?

3. Do you child’s eyes appear straight or do they seem to cross or drift or seem lazy?

4. Do your child’s eyes appear unusual?

5. Do your child’s eyelids droop or does 1 eyelid tend to close?

6. Have your child’s eye(s) ever been injured?

7. Is there any members of the family with eye glasses?

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Recommendations from American Academy of Pediatrics, American Association of Certified Orthoptists, American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, and American Academy of Ophthalmology

1. All pediatricians and other providers of health care to children should be familiar with the joint eye examination guidelines of the above organizations.

2. Every effort should be made to ensure that eye examinations are performed using approprieate testing conditions, instruments, and techniques.

3. Newborns should be evaluated for ocular structural abnormalities, such as cataract, corneal opacities, and ptosis, which are known to result in vision problems, and all children should have their eyes examined on a regular basis.

4. The results of vision assessments, visual acuity and measurements, and eye evaluations, along with instructions for follow up care, should be clearly communicated to parents.

5. All children who are found to have an ocular abnormality or who fail vision screening should be referred to a pediatric opthalmologist or an eye care specialist appropriately trained to treat pediatric patients.

Committee on Practice and Ambulatory Medicine, 2001 - 2002

Reference: PEDIATRICS, April 2002, page 904

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