Uxbridge & District Lions Club

Vision is one of the causes of Lions Clubs International and along with that is hearing. One of the ways the Uxbridge Lions Club helps to improve the health and well-being of our community’s young people is by offering free vision and hearing screenings for youths. The primary purpose of the hearing and vision screening program is to identify vision and hearing problems so that children can receive the care they need before their vision and hearing problems worsen.

 

Our Lions volunteers are trained volunteers to evaluate each child's vision to check for common vision problems, such as nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism. It will also screen for the possibility that your child may need to wear eyeglasses to improve his or her ability to see.

 

The hearing screening program is comprised of a sound test. The child wears headphones and is asked, at increasingly lower audio levels, to point to various pictures.

 

The vision and hearing screening program for kindergarten and grade one students is provided free and the expensive equipment used in the testing was purchased through the fund raising efforts of many local Lions clubs.