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CURRENT ISSUE:
JUNE
2013
NEW
LOOK!
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Eye health
MYTH: children must be able to read before they can take an eye exam.
TRUTH: start routine eye exams at six months of age.
Yet most children under age four haven’t been tested. "Eye exams detect issues such as lazy eye (amblyopia); which, undetected, can cause lasting vision strain and permanent eye damage," warns Dr. Kirsten North, President, Canadian Association of Optometrists. Despite parents' claims of 20-20 vision, 98% of optometrists detect vision problems in children. "Although a child passes school vision screening, depth perception and eye health are not measured," adds Dr. North.
Leslie Philp scheduled her 8-year-old daughter for an eye exam; the optometrist noticed an abnormality on Sarah’s eye; it was retinoblastoma – eye cancer. "We thought she was healthy, we have no history of eye disease in our family."
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Learning is 80% visual, unidentified vision problems can be misdiagnosed as learning and reading disabilities; only 4% of parents link school difficulties to poor eyesight.
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Share the magic of reading
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(NC) Parents know the importance of instilling a child’s love of learning from a very young age. The more kids enjoy reading, the more they embrace it to develop the necessary critical-thinking skills for a full, successful adult life. Story time is often an essential bedtime
routine, and some parents read to their children before birth. Parenting expert and author, Kathy Buckworth, offers practical advice on how to create the love for reading in your children.
• Establish a daily routine; a time and place for reading that makes it a comforting and familiar part of the day
• Make reading a family activity. Encourage kids to share their favourite story one night a week; this keeps reading exciting and interactive
• Above all, make it fun! Explore the many tools that introduce and nurture the love of reading at any age. Leapfrog, an educational brand, helps children navigate their own reading journeys using |
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the Tag reading system. Offering hard cover books, e-books, interactive puzzles, games and maps, this all-in-one learning tool builds a child’s reading skill and is one they’ll love to play with too. H&L
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