Early vision support – basic prerequisites for the proper development of newborns and infants.

Petra Navrátilová

Petra Hálková

During the first months especially after birth, the child receives 75 percent of information from the environment through sight, as the dominant sense. A newborn baby who entered the world under completely physiological conditions, surrounded by receiving parents in the ordinary sense, equipped with parental competences and the usual environment, ensures for himself high-quality visual stimulation just by looking around the world while awake and with the help of the entire visual apparatus I recognize A child with prematurity, pre/peri/postnatal difficulties or associated diseases has difficulty learning about the world, and the next step is targeted visual stimulation and support for the child’s overall psychomotor development, set according to the child’s current level and the needs for the development of specific functions. We will focus on the specifics of setting up visual stimulation and functional vision testing for premature babies as part of early care services in the Association for Early Intervention in the Czech Republic.