ABSTRACT
Near penalization was carried out in 113 children, from which 35 were younger than 5 1/2, and 78 older than 5 1/2 years. We were especially interested in the older group with small angles of squint from zero to five degrees. The treatment with regard to amblyopia in this group is difficult, but we saw also in cases with non-foveal fixation a rapid increase of the near visual acuity because of spherical overcorrection. The distant visual acuity was increased mainly to 0.6. There was no influence upon the angle of squint and the correspondence. In the younger group (below 5 1/2 years) the results with regard to visual acuity, fixation and angle of squint were more favourable. We think, that we will get these results only by occlusion and prism over- and full-correction, if there are no external reasons, such as schoolage, which prevent this treatment.
