Connect for Kids / Child Advocacy 360 / Youth Policy Action Center - Vision & Hearing

Clear Vision for Low-Income Kids

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:41:48 -0500

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.

Building Community for Deaf Parents and their Hearing Kids

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:31:57 -0500

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.