Many children today lack adequate vision care, screenings

Looking at the problem of undiagnosed and untreated children's vision disorders strictly from the standpoint of dollars and cents, a clearer picture of the costs emerges: * It has been estimated that a 1% rise in literacy scores translates into a 2.5% relative rise in labor productivity and a 1.5% increase in gross domestic product per person. * In 2006, U.S. organizations spent $5.8 billion on employee learning and development of basic skills such as remedial reading, writing, and math.