Willard Bleything.pdf - Optometric Extension Program Foundation
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Socially –At‐Risk Populations<br />
• Solon and Mozlin looked at the impact of poverty on<br />
health, vision development and school failure 1<br />
• Zaba examined the linkage between children’s vision, and<br />
learning problems, delinquency, illiteracy, social and<br />
emotional problems 2<br />
• Duckman and Festinger made an in‐depth effort to deliver<br />
vision care to children in foster care 3<br />
• 1 Solan H, Mozlin R. Children in poverty; impact on health, visual development, and school failure. J Optom Devel<br />
1997;28:7‐28.<br />
• 2 Zaba J. Social, emotional, and educational consequences of undetected children’s vision problems. J Behav<br />
Optom 2001;12:66‐70.<br />
• 3 Duckman R, Festinger T. Delivery of vision care in foster care placements in New York City. J Optom Vis Devel<br />
2002;33:116‐125.