Sandusky
Five-year-old Michael Straub loves to watch Diego’s adventures on “Dora the Explorer” and tune into “Power Rangers.”
With his new “Power Rangers” glasses, he can actually see his favorite TV characters in action and read the letters on the SMART board in his kindergarten class.
Straub and nearly 40 other students walked in for eye exams at Mills and Osborne elementary schools this week and left with a new perspective on the world.
They could easily read the small font on the side of the Eyenstein mobile eye care clinic, the 40-foot bus that rolls across the country cutting lenses for kids who need them most.
School officials referred students at the elementary schools based on their financial need and vision problems.
“About 80 percent of the learning we do is through the visual system, and for as many as one in four kids in classrooms who are struggling, vision is likely playing a role,” Hicks said. “But only one in seven first-graders in Ohio have ever had an eye exam, and as many as half of all kids who graduate from high school have never had an eye exam.”
Read more about the mobile eye care clinic and how it helped Sandusky students in Wednesday's Register.
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