- Who should carry out the
screening?
- Why is Screening Children So
Important?
- Why do children need vision screenings?
- Who is ... ?
- What happens if a student does
not pass the screening... ?
- When is ... ?
Screening practitioners should be limited to:
1. Audiologist holding a Certificate of Clinical
Competence (CCC-A) from the American Speech-Language Hearing Association and
state licensure where applicable.
2. Speech-Language Pathologist holding a Certificate of
Clinical Competence (CCC-SLP) from the American Speech-Language HEaring
Association and state licensure where applicable.
3. Support personnel under supervision of a certified
audiologist.
Why is Screening Children So Important?
While only an eye care professional can diagnose and treat a
vision problem, screening helps find children who are in need of a full eye
exam. Vision problems affect 1 in 20 pre-schoolers. They also affect 1 in 4
school-age children. Yet, over 80% of preschool and school-age children never
receive an eye exam. Children often do not know when they are not seeing
properly. Without early detection and treatment, children's vision problems can
lead to:
- permanent vision loss
- learning difficulties and
- delayed development
Why do children need vision screenings?
Young children with vision problems often do not know that the way they see
the world is not the way everyone sees it. Yet vision problems affect one in 20
preschoolers. They also affect one in four school children. Without early
detection and treatment, children's vision problems can lead to:
• permanent vision loss
• learning difficulties
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1. The student should be reinstructed,
earphones repositioned, and rescreened in the same session.
2. If the student does not pass the
rescreening, he or she be referred for audiologic assessment.
3. Hearing status of referred
students should be confirmed within one moth, and no later than 3 months, after
initial screening.
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