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Eyeglasses for school kids boost academic performance, study finds

63 点作者 lnyan超过 3 年前

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jraph超过 3 年前
This study finds that eyeglasses for school kids <i>with vision impairment</i> help.<p>Just from the title I wondered if school kids with eyeglasses performed better than school kids without eyeglasses (and whether eyeglasses gave some self-confidence, or if vision impairment somehow made affected kids more studious, or some shit like this). I was surprised. It&#x27;s not that. The actual result presented by this article seems far less surprising to me (still interesting even if my first reaction was <i>well, duh</i> - some studies are here to turn &quot;well, duh&quot;&#x27;s into actual knowledge).<p>I suggest changing the title to &quot;Eyeglasses for impaired school kids boost academic performance, study finds&quot; (and even dropping &quot;study finds&quot;)
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lordnacho超过 3 年前
When you first need glasses it can surprise you. Towards the end of my uni days I got an eye test after just assuming nothing was wrong for several months. That first set of glasses was a revelation, like entering a new HD world that I didn&#x27;t know I&#x27;d slowly left.<p>For schoolkids it&#x27;s probably even bigger. They don&#x27;t even know that their eyesight might not be just like every other kid. Worth testing, I did so with my kid and she got a light prescription.
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AndrewThrowaway超过 3 年前
Again and again US surprises us all as if it was a third world country.<p>Study shouldn&#x27;t be surprising at all - pupils who struggle to see, struggle to learn. Giving them eyeglasses helps a lot.<p>I would imagine a study like this would be a thing in some third world country. Reading the title you would imagine some poorly lit classroom, wooden walls and clay floor and etc.<p>But it is Baltimore?<p>I grew up in Soviet and then Post-Soviet country. We all had eyesight tests every year, maybe even twice a year. If anything - you got eyeglasses. Yeah, maybe you were bullied for a week by pupils but that&#x27;s it.<p>To be fair I am a bit shocked with US...
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flexie超过 3 年前
One of my kids started school last year. He did well, learned to read etc., but we noticed that unlike his older sibling, he didn&#x27;t seem to like letters, numbers and books much. We never seemed able to concentrate for more than a minute.<p>So in the summer break, we had his vision tested, and it was +6 and +4. Turns out that although you are half blind you can somehow manage to read and write anyways. In a matter of weeks after he got glasses, he taught himself to read in English, a language he doesn&#x27;t even have in school but that he knows from YouTube and Netflix, and with letters different from the Cyrillic alphabet he knew.<p>If like us, you live in a place where kids&#x27; vision is not tested automatically by your physician, I can only encourage you to have your kids&#x27; vision tested.
throwaway019254超过 3 年前
It seems obvious that glasses help at school if you actually need them. But I’m happy to see that it was also proven by research. This will definitely help get funding for more programs like this.<p>I couldn’t afford glasses during my high school and I bet my academic performance would be much better if I could see what’s written on the blackboard.
robinduckett超过 3 年前
My parents didn&#x27;t get me glasses until I was eight years old. I thought blurry was normal. They thought I was dyslexic because I was routinely failing spelling tests.<p>It wasn&#x27;t that I was failing them, it&#x27;s that I relied on spelling phonetically, because when they wrote the words on the blackboard during practice time, I couldn&#x27;t see them, even at the front of the class, so I just made up my own spellings as the teacher called them out.<p>When I finally got glasses (massive, horrible tortoiseshell things with huge lenses provided (only in part) by the NHS, I finally realised things like: Trees have leaves! all the way up, not just on the ground, and that teachers often had a pained look on their faces.
trashface超过 3 年前
I suspect hearing is similar.<p>When I was a freshman in high school, nurse calls up my mom and angrily questions her on why I had never gotten a hearing aid for my right ear for the loss. Mom was like, what hearing loss? The nurse had looked up my record from elementary school. I had been failing hearing tests since 2nd grade and nobody told my parents, or me for that matter. They tested it every year, so that&#x27;s 7 failures in a row. Catholic school BTW, but it was the 80s, might be better now.
helge9210超过 3 年前
It took me a little more than a year to understand I have a problem with my eyesight (difficulty focusing on close by objects and additional distortion on the left eye). And half a year more to formulate what kind of distortion I have. I&#x27;m adult and have a baseline to compare to.<p>Kids might not even understand they have a problem.
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etempleton超过 3 年前
I had a hard time keeping up with taking notes and then I had my eyes tested and got glasses and it wasn’t an issue anymore .<p>I just thought I was slow because I could read the board, it just took me a few seconds to focus each time I looked up, which slowed me down.
glonq超过 3 年前
I didn&#x27;t get glasses until age 10 (grade 5), and more or less <i>couldn&#x27;t read what the teachers were writing on the blackboard</i> before then.
singularity2001超过 3 年前
Alternative or additional causality: kids with eyeglasses have fewer friends and more time to focus on homework
tamaharbor超过 3 年前
So, you do better if you can see?
spywaregorilla超过 3 年前
A followup study has revealed blindfolds reduce academic performance
james_burden超过 3 年前
Yeah because they turn into nerds looooooooool