The Eye Part

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Texas Lions
Texas Registered Opticians
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Helen Keller
Will you not constitute yourselves Knights of
the Blind in this crusade against darkness?
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Other Quotes

• I am your opportunity
• I am knocking at your door
• I want to be adopted
• Will you not help me hasten the day when there
  shall be no preventable blindness

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Texas Projects

• Acuna Eye Clinic
• Lions Club International Foundation
• Leader Dogs for the Blind
• Lions World Service for the Blind
• Eyeglass Recycling Center

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Texas Projects

• Texas Lions League for Crippled Children
• Texas Lions Foundation
• Western Texas Lions Bank
• Taping for the Blind

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Texas Lions Projects

• Lions SightFirst
• Lions Conquering Blindness
• Initiated in 1989
• Dedicated to eliminating preventable and
  correctable blindness throughout the world

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Preschool Children

• Early detection important
• Vision screening is vital to a childs
  development
• Most screening occurs age 5-6
• Approximately 21 of preschool children are
  screened

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Texas Lions and Registered Opticians Partnership

• Experts report that 70 of young people in the
  State Schools for the Blind would not be sight
  impaired if early intervention had been in place
• The Texas Lions and ROATx Early Childhood
  Vision Screening partnership could eliminate
  most if not all Childhood Blindness in Texas.

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Tennessee Lions Outreach program

• Tennessee Lions raised 4,000,000 to fund a
  Lions/Vanderbilt joint project
• Photoscreeners used
• Lions members screen
• Vanderbilt interprets
• Photos not consistent

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Tennessee Lions found the following

• Image Interpretation Breakdown
• Anisometropia 34
• High Hyperopia 16
• Astigmatism 30
• Strabismus 15
• Myopia 2
• Cataract .2

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MTI Photoscreener
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PediaVision System

• Provides an Instant Referral
• Refractive Errors
• Media Opacities
• Anisometropia
• Strabismus
• Astigmatism
• Amblyopia

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Early Childhood Vision Screening Project

• Joint Project Between Texas Lions and Registered
  Opticians Association of Texas
• Lions Service Project at no charge to parents
• This is a screening program for one, two, three,
  and four year olds only.
• Lions Clubs do not have to pay for the eye exams
  or eye care

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Early Childhood Vision Screening Project

• Lions clubs would coordinate the Vision
  Screenings in Schools or Public Library on
  Saturdays and cover the cost of promoting the
  vision screenings.
• The cost of the equipment maintenance, travel,
  office expense would be covered by fees.
• ROATx would coordinate, train and certify
  screeners, provide office facilities,
  professional staff, and communications with the
  doctors.

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Questions?