Vision screenings required for incoming kindergartners
By Debra Pressey
Sunday June 8, 2008
Robert K. O'Daniell
Niasa Nash, 8, shows off her new glasses at the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District in Champaign. Becky Black, right, heads the new district program accommodating a law requiring children entering kindergarten to have an eye exam by a doctor.
SPRINGFIELD – When a routine eye screening failed to catch her oldest daughter's blurry vision, Janet Hughes made it her personal mission to make sure every child in Illinois gets a better chance to see what's on the blackboard.
Several years later, her mission is moving forward with the help of a new state law.
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