Children’s Vision Problems Often Go Undetected, Despite Calls for Regular Screening By Collen DeGuzman from California Healthline Jessica Oberoi, 13, can’t exactly remember when her eyesight started getting blurry. All she knows is that she had to squint to see the whiteboard at school. It wasn’t until last fall when her eighth grade class in Bloomington, Indiana, got vision screenings that Jessica’s extreme nearsightedness and amblyopia, or lazy eye, were discovered. She’s been going through intense treatment since then, and her optometrist, Dr. Katie Connolly, said Jessica has made great improvements — but her lazy eye, which causes depth perception problems, may never go ... June 13, 2022 Patient Care Children's Health, Vision Care 0 0 Comment Read More »
