Not Always Realize, Refraction Disorders Affect Achievement in School

Refractive disorders such as eye and minus cylinder infecting many school children. Sometimes it is not detected, whereas the impact is very serious. Do not be far away talk blindness, learning achievement can be decreased thereby. One of them experienced Anisa, 9th grade student of SMP N 3 Manggarai, Tebet, South Jakarta. He had just received free glasses from Standard Chartered and Helen Keller International, sized to minus 1.75 and minus 2 left lens for the right eye. "Wear glasses since 7th grade It's now add," said Anisa who claimed to have been wearing glasses since grade 7, met on Thursday (10/09/2014). Without glasses, Anisa find it difficult to read the writing on the blackboard. Moreover, if the fit gets to sit in the back. He also admitted, television viewing habits and looking at the laptop screen too close to have made eye myopia or minus increasing. Yani, teacher UKS (School Health) SMP N 3 Manggarai confirmed that the number of students who received free glasses tend to increase. If last year there were only 82 students, this year reaching 132 students. "Partly because of the minus added, but there are some who do wear glasses for the first time," said Yani. Dr. Satya Prabha Kotha of Helen Keller International, said, refractive errors are often not realized. As a result, those school children, in the long term it can have an impact on academic achievement. "Because it is not clear to see, learning performance may decline," said Dr. Satya. Since 2009, Helen Keller International, the UKs train 1,930 teachers throughout Jakarta to detect refractive errors. Noted 155,701 junior high school students have been examined, of whom 23 213 get free glasses. Among teachers, examinations carried out also in 8098 teachers, 7254 of them get glasses. latest health information can be found in http://ukdi.net