Positive effects on reading achievement of providing free vision screening and eyeglasses

Several recent Best Evidence in Brief articles describe the positive effects on reading achievement of providing free vision screening and eyeglasses to students who need them. Adding to the evidence showing that vision is one of the most important health outcomes for academic success, a recent study describes the results of one such program, Florida Vision Quest.
 
Florida Vision Quest (FLVQ) is a program designed to provide students in high-poverty schools with vision screening and free vision testing in a mobile vision clinic. If children are found to need eyeglasses, they receive them at no charge. Two pairs are given to each child.
 
Within three school districts in Central Florida, elementary Title I schools were randomly assigned to one of three treatments: Full treatment (n=19), screen only (n=19), or control (n=38). Only students in grades 4 and 5 were involved in the study. Outcomes were determined for all students in those grades, not just those who needed eyeglasses.
Findings showed there were significant positive effects on reading (Florida Comprehensive Achievement Tests, or FCAT) for schools that received the full treatment (ES=+0.13, p<.05) but not for those that received screening only. There were no effects for math (ES=+0.08, n.s.).

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