Thursday, July 29, 2010
Vision Test Should be the First Exam Students Take This Year
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - CHICAGO – The start of the school year is right around the corner for most kids. To give their children a head start to a successful school year, parents need to educate themselves on the importance of healthy eyesight in relation to classroom performance.
Since 80 percent of a child’s learning is visual, a child’s ability to clearly see the blackboard and the words on a page is critical. Prevent Blindness America, the nation’s oldest volunteer eye health and safety organization, has declared August as Children’s Eye Health and Safety Awareness month in an effort to encourage parents to learn about ways they can help protect their child’s vision.
Many children do not know they have a problem because they think how they see is how everyone else sees. Unfortunately, some students who are labeled as having a learning disability or behavioral problems may simply have a vision impairment.
“Since one in four school-age children have some form of vision problem, we need to make children’s vision and eye health a priority today, before we begin to see the negative effects,” said Hugh R. Parry, president and CEO of Prevent Blindness America. “A child should not need to start failing in school before we realize there is a problem.”
Since 80 percent of a child’s learning is visual, a child’s ability to clearly see the blackboard and the words on a page is critical. Prevent Blindness America, the nation’s oldest volunteer eye health and safety organization, has declared August as Children’s Eye Health and Safety Awareness month in an effort to encourage parents to learn about ways they can help protect their child’s vision.
Many children do not know they have a problem because they think how they see is how everyone else sees. Unfortunately, some students who are labeled as having a learning disability or behavioral problems may simply have a vision impairment.
“Since one in four school-age children have some form of vision problem, we need to make children’s vision and eye health a priority today, before we begin to see the negative effects,” said Hugh R. Parry, president and CEO of Prevent Blindness America. “A child should not need to start failing in school before we realize there is a problem.”
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