{"id":169,"date":"2012-08-24T09:34:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T14:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visiblybettereyecare.com\/blog\/?p=169"},"modified":"2012-08-24T09:34:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T14:34:07","slug":"august-is-national-childrens-vision-and-learning-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visiblybettereyecare.com\/blog\/august-is-national-childrens-vision-and-learning-month\/","title":{"rendered":"August is National Children’s Vision and Learning Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

August is national children’s vision and learning month,\u00a0which provides the\u00a0perfect opportunity to talk about the importance of having a professional eye examination versus a RN administered school screening.\u00a0 I also want to share my personal experience with my son\u2019s vision.<\/p>\n

This past year I noticed my 7 yr old son, Noah,\u00a0 was having a problem in reading. As an Optometrist, I knew this could possibly be a vision issue.\u00a0 I checked his eyes, and had Dr. Kaplan check his eyes as well (as all of us parents know, children usually respond better\u00a0\u00a0to others than to their own parents).\u00a0 My son was 20\/20 at distance and 20\/20 at near when his eyes were tested individually, but when using both eyes he really struggled at near to see the 20\/20 line.\u00a0 His eyes were having trouble working together as a team and therefore he had difficulty in tracking a line of text across a page.\u00a0 He also had difficulty moving from one line to the next line.\u00a0 He kept saying “where was I?”\u00a0 \u00a0None of this would have been detected by a standard in school vision screening which he would have passed because he was 20\/20.<\/p>\n

A school visual screening only tests the vision for distance on the Snellen chart (the big E chart).\u00a0\u00a0 According to the AOA “when vision problems go undetected, children almost invariably have trouble reading and doing their school work.\u00a0 They often display fatigue, fidgeting and frustrations in\u00a0classroom, traits that can lead to misdiagnosis of dyslexia or other learning disabilities. Standard school vision screenings miss 1\/3 of children with eye or vision disorders<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

When children do pass these screenings it gives parents a false sense of security because their child has 20\/20 vision.\u00a0 What these screening fail to test are: eye movements, eye focusing abilities,\u00a0near vision, color vision, and probably the most important of all determining if the eyes are aligned and work together as a team such as in tracking and depth perception.\u00a0 All\u00a0of these\u00a0play an important role in how a child learns, \"\"contributing to staying focused and the ability to read.\u00a0 In Illinois, prior to entering kindergarten, all children\u00a0must have an eye examination by a licensed eye care professional.<\/p>\n

My advice is to take time to read with your child and determine if his\/she might need further testing. After all, who wouldn\u2019t want their child to see visibly better?<\/p>\n

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August is national children’s vision and learning month,\u00a0which provides the\u00a0perfect opportunity to talk about the importance of having a professional eye examination versus a RN administered school screening.\u00a0 I also want to share my personal experience with my son\u2019s vision. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visiblybettereyecare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visiblybettereyecare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visiblybettereyecare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visiblybettereyecare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visiblybettereyecare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/visiblybettereyecare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visiblybettereyecare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visiblybettereyecare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visiblybettereyecare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}