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Red Flags in Your Child's
Visual Development
9-12 Months
- Infant has trouble moving eyes in all directions
- Babys' eyes jiggle from side-to-side or up-and-down and cannot hold
still
- Excessive tearing
- Your infant does not track (follow objects or faces with both his or
her eyes) by 3-4 months
- If by 4 months your child's eyes are not aligned contact your
child's physician or a pediatric optometrist (visit
www.InfantSEE.org for providers
in your area)
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Visual Skills Development: 9-12 Months
You may start noticing your child visually responding to smiles
and voices of others, moving his or her eyes around the room to see
what is happening, and creeping after a favorite toy when seen.
Your child is also using his or her eyes together and judging
distances. He or she can now grasp and throw objects with greater
accuracy.
Other Milestones Include:
- Increasing ability to shift visual attention from near to far space
- Locates people and objects to be avoided when moving toward a goal
- Imitates a variety of body movements
- Locates objects pointed to by another person
- Accurately releases objects into a container
- Searches for contents removed from a container
- Plays peek-a-boo
- Recognizes familiar objects at 20 feet
- Pulls apart pop beads
So what color are your baby's eyes? Since permanent eye color is not set
in stone until at least 9 months of age, you may want to wait until your
child's first birthday to determine what color your child's eyes will be.
Strategies
- To develop visual memory play hide-and-seek games with toys
- If older children are around allow child to watch and imitate
- Encourage crawling rather than early walking; it is important in
developing good eye-hand-body coordination
- Provide stacking and take-apart toys
Visual Development by Age GroupContact Information
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Early Intervention Helps with Developmental Delay
For children with Special Needs, intervention in early childhood
development means finding specific ways to help a child become as functional
as possible.
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