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A new tool for testing the eyesight of young toddlers could mean more children receive treatment for vision difficulties earlier, leading to positive effects on learning and development, researchers said.

Researchers from the School of Optometry and Vision Science at the University of Waterloo have created the Waterloo Differential Acuity Test (WatDAT). The test shows children four shapes, three of which are identical, such as a house among three circles. The tester asks them to point out the one that is different.

This exercise is done at progressively smaller sizes until the child can no longer do it. Because this method is cognitively easier, it works for most children as young as 18 months, study authors said.

In testing on a total of 57 children, aged from 18 months to almost four, the Waterloo researchers found that compared to two paediatric tests currently in use, more children could complete WatDAT at younger ages. All of the tests took similar amounts of time. The research was published in Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics.1

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