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Vision in the Media

The following are 2003 events that are happening around the country involving vision and its link to learning in the news. If you know of any articles, interviews, or other events that are not listed here, please let us know so we may share them with other interested parents and teachers. Remember, it's P.A.V.E.®'s mission to make visual health a national priority. Join P.A.V.E.'s mission today!

February 5, 2003. Denver's Channel 9 News aired a story on the 4 PM News entitled, "Vision Problems in Children often go Undiagnosed," by education reporter Dana Knowles and edited by Web Producer Paola Farer.

The story included COVD President Elect Lynn Hellerstein, her vision therapist and son, who was a therapy patient. The news reporter quoted some of the stats from COVD’s press kit and talked about how many children with learning related vision problems were being missed. The news reporter mentioned how vision therapy was "proven” to help kids!

The website to get information on the TV story is: http://kusa.com/education/default.asp

January 17, 2003 - Spokane, Washington.

Spokane Valley News Herald ran a story about a child that had been many places looking for help and found help with COVD Fellow, Dr. Eric Hussey. Dr. Hussey said that the nice part about this story is that the mom did it on her own. She teaches literature at the community college and does a lot of writing for her church. She also home schools and writing a book on home schooling..

Miss Ohio Teen USA 2003, Amanda (Amy) Stevens, is making vision therapy one of her causes for her reign.

The national platform for Teen USA is speaking out on drug and alcohol abuse and anti violence, but throughout the pageant Amy told the judges about her experience with vision related learning problems and how important it was to her to help bring awareness of this to the public. The pageant director has given her the go ahead to use her title to work with vision awareness as well as the other causes. She will be doing a lot of classroom visits and wants to talk to the teachers about vision. She goes on to Miss Teen USA National telecast on NBC in July.

COVD Vice President Dru Grant received the following message from Laurie Stevens, Amanda's mother: "Thanks again for all your help and support that you have given to Amy both now to the beauty queen and also to the little girl who couldn't learn to read, she would not be living this dream without the proper diagnosis and resolution of her vision problem."

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