August is Amblyopia Awareness Month: Part 1
WHAT IS AMBLYOPIA? Good vision is vital to a child’s education, physical and social development, and vision screening is particularly useful in detecting amblyopia, which affects about one in every 50 Australian children (MIVISION in MINEWS, Aug 2021). Amblyopia (sometimes referred to as ‘lazy eye’) occurs if children’s eyes do not develop properly during infancy…