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Title: The Eye Part


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Texas Lions
Texas Registered Opticians
2
Helen Keller
Will you not constitute yourselves Knights of
the Blind in this crusade against darkness?
3
Other Quotes
  • I am your opportunity
  • I am knocking at your door
  • I want to be adopted
  • Will you not help me hasten the day when there
    shall be no preventable blindness

4
Texas Projects
  • Acuna Eye Clinic
  • Lions Club International Foundation
  • Leader Dogs for the Blind
  • Lions World Service for the Blind
  • Eyeglass Recycling Center

5
Texas Projects
  • Texas Lions League for Crippled Children
  • Texas Lions Foundation
  • Western Texas Lions Bank
  • Taping for the Blind

6
Texas Lions Projects
  • Lions SightFirst
  • Lions Conquering Blindness
  • Initiated in 1989
  • Dedicated to eliminating preventable and
    correctable blindness throughout the world

7
Preschool Children
  • Early detection important
  • Vision screening is vital to a childs
    development
  • Most screening occurs age 5-6
  • Approximately 21 of preschool children are
    screened

8
Texas Lions and Registered Opticians Partnership
  • Experts report that 70 of young people in the
    State Schools for the Blind would not be sight
    impaired if early intervention had been in place
  • The Texas Lions and ROATx Early Childhood
    Vision Screening partnership could eliminate
    most if not all Childhood Blindness in Texas.

9
Tennessee Lions Outreach program
  • Tennessee Lions raised 4,000,000 to fund a
    Lions/Vanderbilt joint project
  • Photoscreeners used
  • Lions members screen
  • Vanderbilt interprets
  • Photos not consistent

10
Tennessee Lions found the following
  • Image Interpretation Breakdown
  • Anisometropia 34
  • High Hyperopia 16
  • Astigmatism 30
  • Strabismus 15
  • Myopia 2
  • Cataract .2

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MTI Photoscreener
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PediaVision System
  • Provides an Instant Referral
  • Refractive Errors
  • Media Opacities
  • Anisometropia
  • Strabismus
  • Astigmatism
  • Amblyopia

13
Early Childhood Vision Screening Project
  • Joint Project Between Texas Lions and Registered
    Opticians Association of Texas
  • Lions Service Project at no charge to parents
  • This is a screening program for one, two, three,
    and four year olds only.
  • Lions Clubs do not have to pay for the eye exams
    or eye care

14
Early Childhood Vision Screening Project
  • Lions clubs would coordinate the Vision
    Screenings in Schools or Public Library on
    Saturdays and cover the cost of promoting the
    vision screenings.
  • The cost of the equipment maintenance, travel,
    office expense would be covered by fees.
  • ROATx would coordinate, train and certify
    screeners, provide office facilities,
    professional staff, and communications with the
    doctors.

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