Enfant Vision Testing

The Enfant™ Pediatric VEP Vision Testing System is a child-friendly, non-invasive medical device used to test for visual deficits in children 6 months of age and older. The vision test does not require dilation or sedation, and is a painless, safe test. The Enfant™ is the only objective vision testing device capable of evaluating the entire visual pathway available today. Most insurance plans will pay for this test.

About Enfant: How it works: After positioning three sensory pads on the child’s head, an operator initiates the test. Cartoon characters appear and music plays while a series of “attention-catching” stimuli are presented to the child on a video display. The Enfant™, using Visual Evoked Potential technology (VEP), recognizes the child’s neurological responses and processes the VEP data.

At the completion of each test, simple “pass/fail” results are immediately presented on the menu-driven operator screen in both graphic and numeric formats. The results are then printed out for the patient’s medical record.

Who are we testing and what are we testing for?

We are testing children six months of age and older in order to detect visual deficits such as strabismus, optic nerve disorders, and severe refractive errors, which could lead to amblyopia.

Check out our latest “Enfant™ Patient Brochure” for more information.

Here are some very interesting statistics about children and their eyesight:

• An estimated 200,000 children are born each year with visual deficits.
• According to the American Optometric Association (AOA), vision disorders are the number one childhood handicap.
• Only 21 percent of children in the United States have their vision screened before kindergarten.
• 72 percent of children with vision deficits go undetected until after the window for effective treatment expires.
• More than one in 50 children have amblyopia, a serious vision disorder, which can lead to blindness in one eye.
• Amblyopia is poor vision in an eye that otherwise appears normal. It occurs when the brain does not recognize the sight from that eye. It is very difficult to detect Amblyopia.
• 3.8 million adults are legally blind in one eye or visually incapacitated due to amblyopia.

For additional information about the Enfant, the importance of early vision testing, and to see if a pediatrician in your area offers the test, visit Enfant Vision.  To fill out the new online vision assessment to see if your child’s behavior may indicate a problem, visit Free Vision Quiz.