Early detection can be the key to quick and effective treatment of many common eye problems—but often, low-income children don't have vision screening until kindergarten. In Alabama, FocusFirst has organized a statewide corps of volunteer college students to catch vision problems early. Gin Phillips explains how it works.

It's a different kind of bicultural family, and one with special challenges—from safely supervising a toddler you can't hear cry to heading off a teacher who wants to enlist your child as interpreter in a meeting about his own school performance. Rob Capriccioso reports.