The visual development of your toddler

In their first year of life, children undergo a fascinating development of their vision during the first few months, enabling them to perceive and discover the world around them more and more clearly. However, even after the first year, their vision is far from fully developed and continues to mature over several years.

2nd and 3rd year of life

Your baby's visual acuity continues to develop steadily. However, not at such a rapid pace as during the first year of life.

Regular check-ups at the ophthalmologist

Regular check-ups with an ophthalmologist are very important for the development of eyesight. For this reason, vision is often checked during the standard medical examinations at the paediatrician’s as well. This is important, because it often goes unnoticed, especially in young children, if they cannot see properly. They are still able to manage everyday life quite well. If one eye has a slight visual impairment, the brain compensates for this with the other eye. However, this is problematic for the development of vision, as the weaker eye is increasingly suppressed and depth perception cannot develop properly. Usually, the stronger eye is repeatedly covered with a patch. This prevents the brain from favouring the stronger eye, and thus trains the weaker eye.

4 years

The retina is fully developed in your little one, but vision is still only about 60%.

7 years

Your child's eyesight has now reached 100% of that of an adult. However, the development of complete visual ability is still not fully matured. Spatial vision and the field of vision still require a certain amount of fine-tuning.

9 years

It is only at around nine years of age that the ability to Spatial vision is about as developed as in an adult.. This means that your child can recognise from a distance whether two identical objects of different sizes are equally far away.

10 to 12 years

Only now is that also the case. Field of vision as large as that of an adult. The visual field is the area that can be seen upwards, downwards, to the right and to the left with the eyes when one fixes on a point. Up until now, your child's peripheral visual field has still been limited. The extent to which your child can also perceive things to the side with both eyes only becomes as large as that of us adults at around 10 to 12 years old.

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