Not quite. Nor is Brianna playing video games. Both children are in therapy…VISION therapy…to correct how their eyes track, scan, and work together. It's a functional vision deficit ...
The results showed the percentage of kindergarten children with a naked eye vision of less than 1.0 was 24.95 percent, for elementary school students it was 37.88 percent, for junior high school ...
This intervention was part of a UNICEF-supported humanitarian program targeting children with disabilities. It gave Candy and her family hope, enabling her to see clearly for the first time in months.
Experts have identified five elements of a brain-based condition that has emerged as a leading cause of vision impairment starting in childhood in the United States and other industrialized nations.