title: Visual acuity in the first two years of life in healthy term newborns: an experience with the teller acuity cards.
abstract: Teller Acuity Cards are a new "preferential looking" procedure for the evaluation of visual acuity in newborns and infants. We used this test to assess, longitudinally, visual acuity in 60 healthy term newborns followed up from birth to two years of age. In order to have a set of comparison parameters for use in studies of newborns at risk of developing visual system impairment, the relative maturational curve was plotted. The acuity values of our sample are in line with those reported by other authors in the literature and they represent the first set of such data referring to a group of healthy term newborns in Italy. This paper provides a visual acuity curve for the first two years of life obtained from healthy term newborns, a curve which could prove useful for reference when this technique is used on newborns at risk of developing neurological and especially visual problems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Child Neurology and Psychiatry, IRCCS C. Mondino Institute of Neurology, University of Pavia, Italy.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cavallini
authors.forename: Elisa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fazzi
authors.forename: Viviana
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Viviani
authors.forename: Maria Graziana
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Astori
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zaverio
authors.forename: Paolo Emilio
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Bianchi
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lanzi
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015351:Vision Screening / Q000379:methods*; D014787:Vision Tests; D014792:Visual Acuity / Q000502:physiology*