Four
to Six Months
As babies learn to
push themselves up, roll over, sit, and scoot, eye-body coordination develops
as they learn to control their own movements in space. Likewise, four- to
six-month-old babies become quite skillful with their eye-hand coordination,
able to direct a bottle into the mouth or grasp at objects freely. Their hands
become their most important tool--they reach for almost everything they
see! This is also the time they start to work on remembering things
they see.
By the fourth or fifth
month, babies' brains have finished learning how to fuse the pictures coming in
from both their right and left eyes into a single image for full binocularity,
or "two-eyed" vision with strong depth perception. Spatial and
dimensional awareness continue to improve as baby learns to aim accurately
when reaching for objects of interest. Likewise, they refine their eye teaming
and focusing skills as they learn to look quickly and accurately between near
and far distances. Normal visual acuity, or a child’s sharpness of vision, has
usually developed to 20/20 by the time the child reaches six months.
Dr. Tanya Flood, Coastal Eyecare Centre
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