Mission Statement
The mission of the Children's Vision Foundation is to promote public awareness of learning difficulties related to vision problems in children. This is accomplished through community vision screenings, public education, and support the treatment of these conditions.
Our Goals
To conduct screenings that includes a comprehensive assessment of children's visual abilities.
To provide families and school staff with information that will facilitate appropriate vision referrals.
To educate communities regarding learning related vision problems.
Vision Screening
Typical school vision screenings routinely check children's using the Snellen Acuity Chart. This tool provides some basic information about the student's eyesight primarily sharpness of vision at distance – measured by the 20/20 line on the eye chart – to diagnose blurred distant vision. Unfortunately, children's vision involves much more.
CVF takes vision screening much further by arranging comprehensive vision screening for children in both the public and private school sectors to identify vision related problems associated with behavioral optometry including:
- Eye teaming
- Focusing ability
- Eye movement control
- Depth perception
- Visual perception
- Visual information processing
- Ability to sustain visual performance to meet the visual demands of the classroom
The CVF screening tool is proven to be effective in identifying at-risk children whose vision problem may be interfering with their learning and school performance.
