Between 0 and 5 years, more than one in ten children has vision problems. Early detection of sight of toddlers is essential. Yet this gesture is still rarely done. The school is an opportunity to give your child control of his sight.

Figures and Consequences of a reality underestimated

An estimated 180,000 children show signs of impairment of vision (functional amblyopia) and strabismus. Approximately 400,000 are ametropia (myopia, hyperopia or astigmatism) and 70,000 have organ damage.
Children with signs of functional amblyopia or strabismus, and which are not detected early and equipped, will become blind or visually impaired. However, iftreated before the age of 2 yearsThey recover normal vision. If care is effective beyond, between 2 and 6, they retrieve only 50% of their vision. Encorelater, learning to read will be altered.

Indeed, reading requires complex and delicate mechanisms, and good vision. A child who does not may be disrupted during this learning period, which determines theacademic achievement and professional. Toute anomalie visuelle risque de décourager un enfant qui se retrouve face à de trop grandes difficultés. Pour cette raison, il peut même refuser d'apprendre à lire.

According to a study by the National Association for the Improvement of the order (Asnav), there is clearly a correlation between learning difficulties in reading and abnormal vision.
But children with blurred vision, even light, find the same read performance as students without fault, as they are corrected.
The Asnav states that 'the most visual handicap for learning to read are diseases of the eye mobility, myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism. The latter is often the cause of academic difficulties, especially as it is a defect often ignored.

In practice, the message is simple, made to monitor your children taking regular appointment with an ophthalmologist, and this early age, before a year!

Alerts

Among toddlers
Refused scribble, is not interested in puzzles or other visual activities.
Clumsy, bumps everywhere.
Parents wearing glasses or having suffered from strabismus.

When achieving a screening test for amblyopia?
A white light appears in the ward.
There are cases of strabismus in the family.

In children and adolescents
Frequent eye blinking, frowning.
A red eyes, itchy or weeping.
A headache or pain in the neck.
Draw, write or reads the nose glued to the book, he's losing his line reading and read it twice.