Did you know that nearly 80 percent of the learning a child does occurs through their eyes? That is why vision problems during school years may have detrimental effect on a child’s learning abilities, their participation is sports and everyday quality of life. Being aware of the most important facts about eyesight and age will let you help your child develop and preserve their eyesight. Eyesight and age are related: a kid’s vision develop as they grow up and engage in different activities. However, school activities imply higher demand on a child’s visual system and require vision…

Vision in preschool children (2 and 5 years) is still developing: kids enhance the vision skills developed earlier in life and gain new skills. The most important preschool vision abilities children develop are eye-hand-body coordination, fine motor skills and vision perception skills – differentiation between shapes, colors, letters and numbers. All of these preschool vision skills help children in their everyday life and prepare them for learning how to read and write. Virtually everything a child does helps them enhance their vision. Even simple things such as buttoning a shirt or stacking building blocks “teach” your child how…