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Vision Tests for All Ages

Snellen's chart is used to measure visual acuity. It tests visual acuity at a distance of 6 meters. The normal visual acuity is 6/6, which means a person can read a letter on the chart that subtends 5 minutes of arc at 6 meters. Different tests are used depending on the age of the patient, ranging from Snellen's test and Landolt's test for school-aged children and adults to tests involving objects like marbles, balls, and drums for younger children and infants.

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Vision Tests for All Ages

Snellen's chart is used to measure visual acuity. It tests visual acuity at a distance of 6 meters. The normal visual acuity is 6/6, which means a person can read a letter on the chart that subtends 5 minutes of arc at 6 meters. Different tests are used depending on the age of the patient, ranging from Snellen's test and Landolt's test for school-aged children and adults to tests involving objects like marbles, balls, and drums for younger children and infants.

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Visual acuity

Mc used - Snellen’s chart


Normal visual acvity = 6/6

Patient stands at 6 meters

6 Patient is standing at a distance of 6 meters


60

Distance from which normal can read this letter

1
Minimum visual acvity recorded by snellen’s chart
60

Finger counting at 1 meter

Finger counting near face

Hand movement

Perception of light

Positive Negative

Check projection of rays Absolutely blind

Superior

Nasal Temporal

Inferior

Arc of 1 minute

Arc of 5 minutes MAR

Nodal point
6 meter testing distance

Each letter substends angle of 5 minutes of the arc at the respective distance

Eg : 6/60 = this will make an angle of 5 minutes at 60 meters For school children and adults
6/36 = this will make an angle of 5 minutes at 36 meters 1. Snellen’s test type
2. Landolt’s test type

What is angle substended by top most letter at 6 meters For 3-5 years
Ans : 5 minutes at 60 meters 1. Illiterate E- count
hence 5 x 10 = 50 minutes of the arc at 6 meters 2. Tumbling E- test
3. Isolated hand - figure test
4. Sheridan- Gardiner HOVT test
5. Pictorial vision test
6. Broken wheel test
7. Bork candy bead test

For 1-2 years


1. Marble game test
2. Sheridan’s ball test
3. Worth’s ivory ball test

For infants
1. Optokinetic nystagmus test
2. Preferential looking test
3. Visually evoked response
4. Catford drum test
5. Indirect assessment- Blink reflex, Menace reflex

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