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Lions Club program oers children free vision screenings
Sandy and Chuck Martin, certied vision screeners with the Houston Cy-Fair Lions Club, said they have helped detect eyesight problems in children to ensure they are treated in time to prevent permanent damage since 2015. “If [children] have severe amblyopia, the bad eye in the brain is going to start shutting down those pathways because that eye isn’t functioning, and that can lead to permanent blindness unless it’s assessed early,” Sandy Martin said. About the program The Lions Club’s KidSight vision screening pro- gram works with children as young as six months old to detect vision problems using a Plusoptix camera, which takes a picture of their eyes and can detect vision problems within 30 seconds.
Parul Shah, owner of Children’s Lighthouse of Houston, and Lions Club’s KidSight licensed screeners Allen Brinkley and Chuck Martin perform a vision screening for a Children’s Lighthouse of Houston child on Sept. 12.
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Ocials said the screening device is 82%-99% eective in detecting vision problems. Vision problems detected include nearsighted- ness, farsightedness, astigmatism, unequal pupil size, “lazy eye,” glaucoma and Stargardt disease. The Martins said such diseases don’t usually have symptoms and can go undetected otherwise. Since 2015, the program has served 18,966 chil- dren; 2,179 were referred for complete eye exams.
Also of note Houston Cy-Fair Lions Club was founded in 1957 and provides families with food each Christmas and supports several local scouting organizations in addition to executing the vision screening program. The group also sends physically handi- capped children to summer camps and assembles 500 meals for Kids’ Meals Houston quarterly.
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