Steps to help children PREVENT MYOPIA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2it-...1&feature=fvwp
Enjoy the video,
On Nov 26, 7:48*am, Lelouch Lamperouge <misa...@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> * * * * Sight-saving in the School-room
> * * * * By Edith F. Gavin
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> * * It seemed so wonderful to me to be able to lay aside my glasses
> and have eye comfort after wearing them for twenty-two years with
> discomfort the greater part of the time! I could scarcely wait to get
> back home to talk to the other teachers about it and try to help a few
> of the children.
> * * I began with Gertrude, who was so nearsighted that from a front
> seat she was unable to see very black figures one and one-half inches
> high printed on a white chart and hanging on the front board. Her
> vision January 11, 1921, was 20/70 in both eyes, but by March 10th she
> had improved to 20/70 with the right eye and 20/30 with the left and
> could read the chart from the last seat in the row.
> * * Matilda had complained of headaches since last September. Glasses
> were obtained last December, and after a few months' struggle to get
> used to them, she refused to wear them, saying that they made her head
> and eyes feel worse. I then told her how to palm and practice with the
> chart. She had no more headaches in school, and her mother said she
> didn't complain at home. Her vision also improved from 20/30 to 20/15.
> * * I next took Walter in hand. His mother would not get glasses for
> him, although advised to do so by the school nurse and doctor. His
> vision February 18th was 20/200. Three weeks later his mother decided
> to get glasses for him, but his vision had improved to 20/20 iin the
> right eye and 20/30 in the left.
> * * Helen's teacher brought her to me, saying she was so nervous and
> read in such a halting manner that she felt sure that her glasses did
> not fit her. Her mother had said she might lay aside her glasses and
> Helen could hardly wait to begin. Shortly after she was taken ill with
> scarlet fever and did not return, but her vision improved from 20/40
> to 20/15, and her teacher said that her reading had improved
> noticeably.
> * * Mollie, age six, was sent in to me February 18th. She tested 20/70
> in the right eye and 20/50 in the left. Her vision in May was 20/30,
> right, and 20/20, left.
> * * When Rae came to my room, May 15th, her vision was 20/70. Her
> father was very much opposed to her wearing glasses and readily gave
> permission for me to help her. She remained in the district only two
> weeks, but she had improved to 20/20 in the right eye and 20/30 in the
> left.
> * * Bennie, mentally defective, required a great deal of patience, but
> he improved from 20/50 February 9th to 20/15 March 4th.
> * * Leo, a fifth grade pupil, was sent to me February 20th by his
> teacher. She said he wouldn't wear his glasses and was a poor student.
> He tested 20/50 in the right eye and 20/30 in the left. By March 15th
> his vision was 20/30, right eye, and 20/15, left, and his teacher said
> that he showed a marked improvement in his scholarship.
> * * The children needing help came to me fifteen minutes before the
> afternoon began. If I was busy with one, the others would work quietly
> by themselves, seeming to take great pride in their improvement. The
> chart hangs on the front wall at all times. I taught the class how to
> palm and often different ones would come up early to practice. Several
> children with apparently normal vision told me that they were able to
> read two or three lines more at the end of the term. To my mind there
> is no limit to the good that might be accomplished if this method were
> in general use in the schools.
> ——
> School Number
> Better Eyesight
> A monthly magazine devoted to the prevention and cure of imperfect
> sight without glasses
> Vol. V - August, 1921 - No. 2
> Copyright, 1921, by the Central Fixation Publishing Company
> Editor—W. H. Bates, M.D.
> Publisher—Central Fixation Publishing Co.
> Doctors are needed all over the world to cure people without glasses
> $2.00 per year, 20 cents per copy
> 300 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y.
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