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The article reports on the exhibit on eye care intended for students from different grade levels by the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness in New York City.

The article focuses on the challenges of sight conservation as related to the general program of school organization in California. One problem cited is who will examine the eyes, to what extent and how effectively. Another is the presence of inexperience of physicians in lighting and environmental factors in working with pathology. The author also presented definitions of the term sight conservation and offers standards that are applicable, effective and comfortable use of the eyes.

The article focuses on the establishment of sight saving classes in the U.S. Educators found that children with defective vision present a very special teaching problem. In response to this problem, scientific methods are integrated in the teaching process. However, it is recommended that basic teaching methods in this type of special class should be modified to enable effective teaching to visually handicapped children.

The article aims to discuss the hygiene of school vision. First, the author explores some health problems of a child that contribute to weaken the his vision such as eyestrain. It is of great value therefore, the hygienic precautions in the schoolroom to preserve the eyesight of a healthy child. Moreover, the author presented and discussed some factors relating to the hygiene of school vision. They include illumination of the schoolroom, the tinting of the walls, and reading matters such as size of letters, style of type, and width of printed columns.

The article detects certain visual anomalies and their relation to achievement in reading. The categories in measuring visual acuity is discussed. Readings greater than unity in the revised Snellen notation are usually neglected. The change of visual acuity with change in illumination has been the subject of numerous investigations. It is well established that visual acuity varies linearly with the logarithm of the illumination over the important part of the range. The reliability and validity of visual acuity measurements depends upon the training and the ability of the person who conducts the examination.

The article presents several periodicals related to proper eye care including the "Current research in work for the blind; a survey," by Nathaniel J. Raskin and Marian F. Weller and "Maladjustment and maternal rejection in retrolental fibroplasia," by H. Barry Jr. and Frances E. Marshall.

Reports on the plan of the Eyesight Conservation Council of America to promote the care of eye sight among pupils through an information campaign. Statistics on children with defective vision issued by the Council; Overview of a story on eye vision shared by the Council.

The article relates an author's experience as a teacher of children with visual disabilities and as part in the development of a sight-saving program. The author identified the eye stress experienced by school children from staying up late to watch television programs as the reason behind the establishment of the school program on general good health. The school program provides suggested rules for watching television, mentoring seating, room-lighting and position, class discussions on how to watch television with the most comfort and least fatigue.

The article features the summer school training sessions which offer courses for the preparation of teachers and supervisors of sight-saving classes. The summer sessions is organized by the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness and with the cooperation of several universities and colleges.

The article focuses on the training of public health nurses in New York for their participation in a sight-saving program. The State Nursing Organization advised to set qualifications for interested applicants. The nurses will play a vital role on the physical and emotional rehabilitation of blind children in the program.

The article sheds light on the eye, learning disabilities, and dyslexia. Learning disability and dyslexia, as well as other forms of school underachievement, require a multidisciplinary approach from medicine, education, and psychology in diagnosis and treatment. Eye care should never be instituted in isolation when a patient has a reading problem. Children with learning disabilities have the same incidence of ocular abnormalities, e.g., refractive errors and muscle imbalance, as children who are normal achievers and reading at grade level. These abnormalities should be corrected.

The article presents a list of articles related to special education including "Eye care procedures in the home with special attention to the role of public health nurse" by Lois A. Federico, "Modern foreign language in the elementary school: Teaching techniques," by Elizabeth Keesee, "Teaching the deaf child to read," by Eloise Kennedy, "An exploratory investigation of a method of improving speech reading," by June Miller, Clyde L. Rousey, and C. P. Goetzinger, "Waukegan finds advantages in the itinerant teacher plan," by Arline Morin, and "Auditory disorders in children: A manual for differential diagnosis," by Helmer R. Myklebust.

The article features the vision testing project, sponsored in collaboration by the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, the U.S. Children's Bureau of the Federal Security Agency, and the Missouri Division of Public Health. The study is intended to evaluate and assess methods and instruments employed to examine the vision of school children who may need eye care.

The article presents a list of books and other publications related to education, including "Psychology of the Elementary School Subjects," by Luella Cole, "A Program of Eye Health in a School System," by Mary Emma Smith, and "Basic Considerations in Educational Testing," by Ben D. Wood.

Recent demands for more adequate medical care at lower costs have been nationwide in scope, but they have been especially marked among groups interested in the welfare of rural people. Surveys of the health situation in the U.S., made by such agencies as the Committee on Costs of Medical Care, the U.S. Public Health Service, and the Interdepartmental Committee to Coordinate Health and Welfare Activities, have repeatedly pointed to the greater number of unmet health needs among farm families, as contrasted with those of urban families. Farm families, in general, have been ignorant of, or apathetic toward, the benefits of good medical care. The lack of adequate medical facilities available to them, together with their inability to pay the costs of good medical care also have limited the amounts of medical service which rural people have received. The present study investigated not only the amount, kind, and cost of medical goods and services used by a group of rural families, but also certain factors which might be expected to affect these expenditures.

The article evaluates the methods of testing children's vision. The Snellen test for distance visual acuity was given by the classroom teacher. Whether the students passed or failed any screening test, they will receive an eye examination by a team of oculists in the eye department of Washington University. The Massachusetts Vision Test checks usable distance vision on a Snellen chart, which screens for hypermetropia using plus lenses, and test for vertical and horizontal balance of the extraocular muscles at distance.