North Suburban Vision Consultants featured on ABC 7 Chicago

A North Suburban Vision Consultants Optometrist was featured on WLS TV ABC 7 Morning News on Monday, August 12th, 2002.

ABC 7 News Anchor, Hosea Sanders interviewed NSVC about vision care for children and back to school eye concerns.

It is estimated that nearly between 17- 25% of school-aged children have vision problems significant enough to impair academic performance.¹

NSVC encourages parents to be conscientious about bringing their children in for regular comprehensive eye examinations. It is important for parents to know that vision screenings do not diagnose vision problems nor do they lead to their treatment, rather they only indicate that there may be a potential vision problem. Conditions such as amblyopia ("lazy eye") require early treatment, which should begin before the age of six.

These are a few signs that may indicate that your child has a vision problem:

• Squinting for either far or near tasks
• Headaches during or after reading
• Fatigues quickly with near tasks
• Trouble copying form the blackboard
• Frequent loss of place while reading

Modern advances have allowed children to be fit in various designs of contact lenses. NSVC has successfully fit children as young as six years old with both soft and gas permeable contact lenses.

North Suburban Vision Consultants, Ltd. is located at 360 S. Waukegan Road, Suite A, Deerfield, IL 60015. For more information about CRT, Please call 847-412-0311.

1. American Foundation for Vision Awareness. Children'a vision and literacy campaign paper. St Louis:AFVA, 1993.