Thursday, March 31, 2011

Vision Screening By Vista Eye Specialist

Children happy with the bags given by Vista!
Can you tell me what is that number?
Every one has a bag!
Can you see any number in this picture?
Can you match the number you see on the board?

Children's ability to see greatly impacts their ability to learn. Screening is intended to facilitate early identification and diagnosis of disease and functional disorders. Hence, QQ has arranged Vista to do a vision Screening for our children on last Wednesday 23.3.2011.

From the screening results, we have found 6 children need to go for further evaluation! This is important as recently, we have a new student joining our Joy in Learning Primary after school care programme was diagnosed with lazy eyes. The doctor said that it started as early as 3 years old! Nobody including the parents noticed the child has vision problem. Imagine, how she learn all these years with poor vision and everything is blur. Until recently when she join our programme, we found that she has difficulty in copying words from board. So, we suggested to the mother to send her for checking then only we knew that she has developed lazy eye!

So parents, if you see your child straining his/her eyes while watching TV or play game, better bring them for check up!

Besides that, there is one student who request to do colour blind test and luckily, he is normal!

In QQ, we always care for your child and that's why this screening is arranged! We hope that parents will appreciate our effort! Special thanks also goes to Ms. Yap and Ms. Ching, optometrist from Vista who performed the screening for us!