On April 6, 2018, the County of San Diego presented the Shiley Eye Institute EyeMobile for Children at UC San Diego with the Live Well San Diego 2018 Public Health Champion Award for an organization. The honor recognizes the outstanding services provided to San Diego County children since 2000. Over the past 18 years, the EyeMobile has provided more than 214,000 vision screenings, 29,000 dilated eye exams and gave out 11,000 pairs of glasses free of charge to…
Author: r3y1
Hola Iliana, It is a pleasure to be working with you and your team every year to help our students; we appreciate the amazing service your program offers. Today was an exceptional day and I just wanted to share with you why. We have 2 students with special needs and today your staff, Eric and the optometrist Palanca, went above and beyond to assess their vision. One student would not go in the trailer at all and the…
Demographic and Geographic Variations From 2015 to 2060 Visual impairment (VI) in early childhood can significantly impair the development of visual, motor, and cognitive function and lead to adverse psychosocial consequences. For example, the Vision in Preschoolers study5 reported that VI from uncorrected hyperopia was associated with deficits in early literacy and in other essential skills for school readiness. More importantly, interventions, such as spectacle correction in preschool children, have been shown to restore the visual-motor function of…