FARGO - When Bergen Lindahl was about 3 years old, she couldn't sit still when her mother read to her. "She was never curious about the words. She was only curious about the pictures," mom Beth says.
As many as 30% of children and teens across the world were nearsighted in 2023, a new study has revealed. Diagnoses of nearsightedness (myopia) are expected to worsen over the next two decades, ...
Annual checkups are an important step in protecting your child’s eye health and vision, but families tend to see the eye doctor less regularly than their primary care doctor, pediatrician or dentist.
As a child, Kathryn Marxen-Simonson often felt embarrassed by her poor eyesight and did not want to stand out from other kids. At school, she wouldn’t use tools like magnifiers that could have helped ...
The Kids Low Vision and Reading (KLoVR) study aims to better understand reading ability among children with permanent vision impairment. We need to recruit children ages 6 to 16 with normal vision ...
OAK BROOK, Ill., March 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Lions KidSight USA (KidSight), a program of Lions International, was recognized with the Champion for Vision award at the annual American Association for ...
I noticed that many of our patients with autism have never had vision screening, even though it's recommended for all young children. So, I wanted to study whether this might be a broader disparity – ...
Half of parents are blind to how much screen time can damage their kids' vision, according to new research. They overlook simple steps to protect it, such as wearing blue-light blocking glasses and ...
MIDLAND Throughout this week, Sight Savers America has been helping children throughout West Texas with low vision evaluations and high tech vision aids at no cost. This week, Sight Savers America ...