title: Assessment of visual acuity in infants and children: the acuity card procedure.
abstract: The 'acuity card' procedure described here is a simplified method of testing visual acuity of infants and young children, and has been developed to allow preferential looking to be assessed in a laboratory or clinic. A higher proportion of children can be tested successfully than has been reported for more traditional procedures. Initial studies indicate that the acuity card procedure is a fast, accurate method for assessing the acuity of normal infants and children, and those with visual or neurological impairments, across a wide age-range and in both clinical and laboratory settings.
mesh_terms: D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology; D014787:Vision Tests / Q000379:methods*; D014792:Visual Acuity