title: Visual development in infancy and childhood.
abstract: This article considers the development of vision in normal children, emphasizing new evaluative techniques that may eventually play an important role in clinical practice, and follows with a discussion of abnormal development, where recent discoveries in the laboratory and in clinical observation have already led to significant advances in the treatment of children with ophthalmologic problems.
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging; D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D002386:Cataract / Q000503:physiopathology; D002415:Cats; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual; D005123:Eye / Q000254:growth & development*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009799:Ocular Physiological Phenomena; D013285:Strabismus / Q000503:physiopathology; D014787:Vision Tests / Q000379:methods*; D014785:Vision, Ocular; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000254:growth & development; D014796:Visual Perception