Ocular HealthChild Development
Baby Eye Color: How and When It Changes
Most babies are not born with blue eyes. What melanin and genes really do to baby eye color, when it settles, and the changes worth an eye exam.
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Child Development
38 posts from the Vision & Learning Blog filed under Child Development.
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How Vision Shapes Developmental Milestones
How vision guides reaching, crawling, walking, fine motor skill and social connection, what the research shows, and when to have your child's eyes…
Child DevelopmentVisual Acquisition SkillsAmblyopia/Strabismus
Depth Perception: How It Develops and What Affects It
How depth perception develops from infancy, what amblyopia, strabismus and eye-teaming problems do to it, and what treatment can realistically…
Vision & LearningChild DevelopmentVisual Acquisition Skills
Primitive Reflexes and Vision: The Connection
How retained ATNR, STNR and TLR patterns can shape posture, eye movements and near work, what the small research base shows, and how we screen for…
Child DevelopmentVisual Processing
Visual-Spatial Development Milestones by Age
How visual-spatial skills build from birth to age six, why letter reversals fade on their own, what parents can do at home, and when to have vision…
Vision & LearningChild DevelopmentGross & Fine Motor Skills
Book Review: Active Baby, Healthy Brain
Our review of Margaret Sassé's Active Baby, Healthy Brain: 135 movement activities from birth to 5½, plus what research says about tummy time and…
Vision & LearningChild DevelopmentGross & Fine Motor Skills
Why Your Child's Handwriting Isn't Improving
Handwriting has a large visual component that practice alone does not train. What the research shows about visual-motor integration, spacing and…
Vision & LearningChild DevelopmentGross & Fine Motor Skills
Learning to Learn Part 4: Motor Systems
Body schema, bilateral integration, ocular motor control and motor planning, and how each one shows up in a child's handwriting, reading and…
Vision & LearningChild DevelopmentVisual Processing
Learning to Learn Part 3: Sensory Systems
The seven senses, how vision teams with the vestibular and proprioceptive systems, and what that means for posture, handwriting and classroom…
Child DevelopmentOcular Health
What Can My Baby See? Vision in the First Year
How a baby's vision develops month by month: contrast, faces, color, tracking and depth perception, the blue-eye myth, and when to book that first…
Vision & LearningVisual ProcessingChild Development
Are Letter Reversals Always a Sign of Dyslexia?
Backwards b's and d's are normal in early writers. Here is why young brains mirror letters, what dyslexia actually is, and when reversals deserve a…
Vision & LearningChild Development
Learning to Learn Part 1: Two Students, One Lesson
Two fifth graders both score 100 on the same quiz, but one works twice as hard. Here is the developmental sequence behind that difference, and why…
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