Overcoming barriers to pediatric visual acuity screening through education plus provision of materials.

Purpose: The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that LEA and HOTV optotypes be used for vision screening and that adhesive tape be used to occlude one eye during testing. We have developed an educational program designed to improve the quality and efficiency of vision screening. The purpose of this study was to ascertain the effectiveness of this program.

Preverbal photoscreening for amblyogenic factors and outcomes in amblyopia treatment: early objective screening and visual acuities.

Background: Previous studies have suggested that infant photoscreening yields better results than visual acuity screening in preschool-aged children. With conventional vision screening, the patient must be able to provide monocular visual acuity cooperation, whereas objective screening for amblyogenic factors can be done at much younger ages.

Methods: From February 1996 through February 2006, Alaska Blind Child Discovery photoscreened 21,367 rural and urban Alaskan children through grade 2, with an 82% positive predictive value (ie, true number of those referred); 6.

Pediatric eye/vision screening. Referral criteria for the pedia vision plus optix s 04 photoscreener compared to visual acuity and digital photoscreening. Kindergarten computer photoscreening.

Background And Purpose: Carefully interpreted photoscreen programs yield high predictive value and favorable sensitivity for amblyopia in pre-school children, but most require a long learning curve. The new PediaVision photoscreener appears to offer advantages and is evaluated in caparison with other established screening methods.

Methods: The Plus Optix S04 (PediaVision) computer-interpreted, infrared photoscreener was compared to digital physician-interpreted (Gateway DV-S20) photoscreening and patched Surround HOTV acuity testing in Kindergarten students.

A comparison of patched HOTV visual acuity and photoscreening.

Early detection of significant vision problems in children is a high priority for pediatricians and school nurses. Routine vision screening is a necessary part of that detection and has traditionally involved acuity charts. However, photoscreening in which "red eye" is elicited to show whether each eye is focusing may outperform routine acuity testing in pediatric offices and schools.