Taking care of little eyes

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The Louisiana Lions Cubsight Program recently offered free vision screenings to students in grades pre-K3, pre-K4 and kindergarten at Holy Cross Elementary School. The test provides instant photographs of a child’s eyes and determines the presence of eye disorders including far and nearsightedness, astigmatism, strabismus (crossed or misaligned eyes), anisometropia (unequal refractive power), and media opacities (i.e. cataracts). The information obtained from this vision screening is preliminary only, and parents are contacted with the results of the screening. They are responsible for arranging for a complete eye exam if the child has been referred as a result of the screening test. Pictured is Lions Club volunteer Sheree Hebert taking photographs of pre-K4 student Cooper Boudreaux’s eyes while Luke LeBlanc and Graham Richard look on.