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New school vision screening laws for 2006
Several states have legislated new laws for improved school vision screening which will take place in 2006. I’m proud that my state, Arkansas, is one of the states that is taking the lead. The Vision Council of America (VCA) reports: … Continue reading
Strabismus statistics
Strabismus is also called cross-eyes, lazy eye, turned eye, squint, double vision, wall eyes, floating, wandering, wayward, or drifting eyes. Associated medical terms are amblyopia, esotropia, exotropia, hypertropia, diplopia or cranial nerve palsy.
Strabismus affects approximately 2-4% of the population in the U.S.
This translates into approximately 1 in every 25 to 50 people whose eye turns to some degree at least part of the time.
That’s 6 to 12 million people who have lived with eyes apart in the U.S. alone.
A world wide estimate, based on the figures above, would be 130 to 260 million people affected by strabismus. Continue reading
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