Show Home Eye Test Kits Available For Preschoolers A Home Eye Test Kit enabling parents to do a vision screening of their preschoolers at home is now available free of charge from the Utah Society for the Prevention of according to the Society's Richard W. Simple instructions prepare the parent to give the child the standard Snellen Symbol E Chart vision THE situation which the Society seeks to remedy through the Home Eye Test is one in every 20 preschool age children in the U.S. has a vision problem if can seriously interfere with his development and Present preschool vision screening programs less than of the 16 million children in the age group said the National Society's Committee on Eye Health of in recommending the development and nationwide distribution of a home vision THE a advisory is made up of representatives of nursing school public health administration and medical social must be cautions any vision screening only indicates that a child may have a visual and only limited visual skills are This is true for organized programs with trained screeners and will be true with the Home Eye screening is not and does not take the place of a professional eye We do not and cannot expect to locate through screenings every child who needs eye and some children whose test results indicate the need for referral to an eye specialist may not need glasses or we hope for is the chance to locate those thousands of children who have never had their vision who show no obvious signs of eye or vision but will demonstrate quite readily in a. screening that they are using only one eye for or that they can the chart with each eye separately but not with both eyes CURRENTLY preschool vision screening programs are conducted by public health school and by the thousands of volunteers who are often members of religious or fraternal The screenings are conducted at community day-care nursery schools and Head Start In of many pediatricians and family physicians do vision screening as part of the routine physical examinations of their preschool age THE HOME Eye Test kit includes a scale version of the E directions for training the child the for giving the and for interpreting test A report to be returned to the asks the parent whether the child passed the if whether an appointment has been made for an eye and with The Society sees the Home Eye Test as an means of parent and hopefully an inducement to early visual care for their young PILOT tests of home vision screenings have been done in which children who had been tested at home were subsequently given a screening by trained screeners using standardized Comparison of the results of the two testing procedures proved the home method results to be in close agreement with the results of the traditional method Production and distribution of the Home Eye Test was made possible through a grant to the National Society from the Delta Gamma a women's organization whose prime concern is sight During this introductory the Utah Society is handling individual requests TO OBTAIN a Home Eye Test Prevention of 2033 South State Salt Lake Utah |