Yet another case of a child with ‘learning disabilities’ who has struggled for years, now discovering she’s a high aniso/amblyope. Here’s a novel idea: Child vision standards. The standard approach described below is comprehensive and covers many aspects of society…
Tag: advocacy
Visual Disabilities and Impairment: Mostly Refractive, Mostly Preventable
In an earlier post, I had outlined fundamental principles of hyperopia (farsightedness) as a physical disability. Likewise, astigmatism is a frequently un-diagnosed and untreated visual impediment that contributes to child health, behaviour, development, and learning concerns. The impact of nearsightedness…
MountainPostcards.com
Free Hi-Res posters for print or desktop! Here’s a fun way to promote vision exams for kids. (Oh, and it’s also shamefully promoting my VT-related websites…!) Sign up is easy, and when you get the emails, you can send them…
Update July 6, 2013
Hi Everyone, I’ve created the first BuddyPress Group for Advocacy. This is a discussion group allowing interested parties to pursue this topic specifically. Other topics can and should be hosted either through ordinary posts, or through creation of new groups.…
Alberta Schools Inadvertently Violating Children’s Rights?
In any given classroom in any school in the Province, there are a number of children struggling with difficult vision. These children are not blind, but their vision problems are in a way much worse: A child with visual impediments…