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Can you believe it’s September already? September is Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month. We may not often think about our children’s eyes when we take them in for their checkups with the pediatrician, but their vision is very important!
While most children’s eyes are quite healthy, it’s important to have their vision checked regularly. Some conditions that may affect your child’s vision include amblyopia, strabismus, ptosis, color blindness, nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism.
Infants should be screened for vision problems at their pediatric appointments, and children over the age of three should have their vision tested regularly by an optometrist.
Aside from these conditions, you need to protect your child from sports injuries, which are a leading cause of vision loss for kids. Of the estimated 42,000 sports-related eye injuries that occur every year, most of them happen to children. Many of these can be prevented by wearing protective eyewear and making sure children are playing with age-appropriate games and toys.
If your child has or develops a vision problem, be sure to seek treatment as soon as possible, and talk with your healthcare provider and school district about ensuring that your child has all of the tools they need for success in life. You may want to look into having an IEP (individualized education plan) for your child to make sure they have what they need to succeed in school.
This was originally posted elsewhere last year.
That’s me: Christina Gleason. I’m a writer, editor, and disability advocate. I'm a multiply disabled autistic lady doing my best in this world built for abled people. I’m a geek for grammar, fantasy, and casual gaming. I hate vegetables. I cannot reliably speak, so I’ll happily conduct business over email or messaging instead.
Man oh man. When I was a kid, my parent’s rarely got my eyes checked. Aside from an unfortunate mishap with a thorn bush that left me with an eyepatch for several weeks, eye care was usually low priority.
As it would eventually turn out around the 6th grade, my vision was terrible. But because I had no other frame of reference to compare my sight to, I went years without saying a peep; I thought everyone saw the world as I did!
When I did finally get my first prescription glasses, I realized I had really been missing out.
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I have also visual defect since grade school and I have to check my vision regularly because I am afraid to loss my eyesights. You have to seek treatment if you are visually impaired as early as now and not wait if your eyesight already loss.
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