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Alarming Facts You Didn’t Know

  • 25% of students experience a vision problem significant enough to negatively impact their performance in school.
  • 1 in 4 students cannot see the board in school.
  • Myopia and other refractive errors are seen in 20 percent of children.
  • Myopia is predicted to become a leading cause of permanent blindness worldwide.
  • Only 6% of parents recognize that vision problems can lead to difficulties in school.
  • Only 50 percent of parents in the U.S. take their kids for annual eye exams.
  • 50% of the entire human population will be myopic by 2050.
  • 80 percent of all learning during a child's first 12 years comes through the eyes.
  • About 10% of preschoolers have eye or vision problems.
  • 1 in 4 children wear some sort of vision correction to see clearly.
  • Only 6% of parents recognize that vision problems can lead to difficulties in school.

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