Sunday, June 06, 2010

 7:30:27 AM

Lions Di-RBlythedale Children’s Hospital are working together to offer free photo screening to children in Northern Westchester, Putnam and Rockland Counties

 

PDG Lorraine Cheney, Grant Administrator; PID Bob Klein, Project Chairperson

Barbara Ladenheim, Ph.D., Program Director;  Natalie Lusher, Program Coordinator

 Dawn Rush, M.D. and Joelle Mast, M.D., Ph.D., Medical Directors

 

Our first session

 

 

 

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…are interested in the program

…are available twice a month for 2 to 3 hours

…can relate to 1 to 5 year old children

…have steady hands

 

 

 

 

 

33 children  were  successfully screened

 

 

 Lions SEE @ Blythedale
(Lions Screening Eyes Early @ Blythedale)

Our  Armonk Lions See Committee examined

100 children

 

Armonk Lions See Committee

Bob Herbert, Murray Leffler, ,

Jag Rao 

Arnold Rich

 

Most children are not screened for visual function before age three

 3 to 5% of preschoolers have visual problems that can lead to

amblyopia
 Early detection leads to early treatment