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COLOBOMA |
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Looking at Mommy
When your child with retina and or macula and or optic nerve coloboma is looking at you he will not
look like he is looking at you. This is hard to understand unless
you think of having a gray ball in the center of your vision all
the time. You will get used to the gray ball and ignore it in time,
but you will always have to look around it to see. So if your child
looks like he is looking at you he is blocking you out with this
gray ball and looking at something else.
Vision With One Eye
(Monocular Vision)
The small distance between our eyes gives us stereoscopic depth perception. The brain combines the two slightly different images into one 3D image. It works most effectively for distances up to 18 feet. For objects at a greater distance, our brain uses relative size and motion to determine depth. People with only one eye have no stereoscopic depth perception. They can use relative size and motion to judge depth. A ship at sea looks small. We know it is not a toy boat so there must be quite a distance between it and us.
