Facts and Figures

Learning-Related Vision Problem Facts & Figures

• Up to 25% off all school age children have vision problems significant enough to impair
  academic performance. The rate may be as high as 60% for those children labeled as having
  learning problems.1
• An evaluation of the visual efficiency of beginning readers in a public school found that
  visual factors were the primary cause of reading failure and that most current school
  screenings are inadequate to detect these problems.2
• A study of inner city youths found that poor vision is related to academic and behavioral
  problems among at-risk children.3