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Screening Your Childs Vision

By KSEE Sales
February 12, 2013 Updated Feb 12, 2013 at 9:31 AM PDT

Vision screening may be effective and appropriate at very young ages. The US Preventive Services Task Force recently said there wasn't enough evidence to recommend screening children under age three for vision problems, like amblyopia.

But new data from the University of Iowa found testing for such problems was equally effective in kids under age three, as it was for kids over age four.

The condition, also called lazy eye is highly treatable, if caught early

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