It's so fantastic, but how do they figure out the kids’ correct prescriptions?

Dammit OP how am I supposed to be pessimist and grumpy with stuff like this flying around?!

(Cute af!)

Standard Vision chart?

Just think about the costs for replacing them?

That first one is a baby Rick Moranis.

Damnit take my upvote

But that then leads to chances for other styles and colors.

Give those kids mirrors and options and kittens.

🤯

I dunno, with so many kids in foster care, it can't be that difficult to find a new one.

It’s a guess in the beginning, but kids have a much wider range of prescription that works for them because their eyes can turn inward or outward to focus (accommodative esotropia or exotropia), unlike adults. You give a general prescription and see if it fixes the eye crossing or drift. If not, up the prescription.

They can also give kids eye drops that relax the eyes and then they use a machine to look at their eyes and get a more precise reading and prescription.

Onion ninja's ? Here on lemmy?

yeah this got me too.

I recall someone commented they check based on light reaction

Reflex Testing: Optometrists observe the baby’s eye movement and responsiveness to light. This helps gauge visual development.

Article I pulled from

https://naturalparentingcenter.com/how-do-optometrists-determine-prescription-for-babies/

There's instruments that use wavefront aberration to automatically measure your eyes for corrective lenses. As an adult, I've had eye doctors use one to get an initial guess to speed up the manual testing process. It's not quite as accurate, but it's close enough to get a decent prescription for an infant.

Yeah they had one that was an attachment to a smartphone at my kid’s pediatrician. The assistant just snaps a picture of her eye and it can measure the refractive index from its special camera and it gave a reading right in the app almost instantly

Feels just as delightful as an adult when your prescription changes enough since the last update.

Song is Evergreen by Richy Mitch and the Coal Miners, though it's slowed down a bit, I'm guessing to avoid copyright stuff. Not a fan of TikTok, but I am very happy to see one of my favorite bands get the recognition they deserve!

Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!