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20 1 Vision Awareness Week â€" March 6-12 Vision and literacy: There's a clear connection his year’s Vision Awareness I Week message, delivered by Peter Gzowski, honorary chairman, is: If you can’t see it, how can you read it? Good vision and lit- eracy â€" there’s a clear connection. Much information has been generated about illiteracy and the problems it causes society. Nearly 40% of adult Canadians have some problem read- ing, writing, and dealing with num- bers. A full 16% of adult Canadians do not have the literacy skills required to perform everyday tasks, such as reading a newspaper, filling out an application, or reading product information on food packaging. Dr. Karen B. Smith - an Oakville Optometrist with special training in children’s vision â€" notes that an obvi- ous, but often overlooked cause of illiteracy, lies in poor viSion. “There :are many sides to illiteracy and an :optometrist can be an important part :of the team to solve the problem,” :said Dr. Smith, “and good vision is Zimportant to develop good reading skills. Parents ‘need to be aware of this connection.” The Canadian Assbciation of Optometrists (CAO) says: D At lease one out of every six children has a visual performance problem; CI Visual performance problems are sometimes difficult to detect, and; El There is a higher rate of vision problems among children with read- ing difficulties. Many adults with poor literacy skills were once children whose vision performance problems went undetected. While good vision is not a cure for illiteracy, it is an ounce of prevention that can help save a pound of cure. Dr. Smith added, “Whatever the cause, eye disorders will not go away by themselves. Parents must take the first step by taking their children for a thorough eye examination, preferably by the age of three.” Remember, March 6th to 12th is â€" Vision Awareness Week!! THE OAKVILLE BEAVER The human mind can be a wonderfully inventive thing, but unfortunately the human body is prone to breakdowns. Thankfully, that inventiveness has been applied to deal with the complications of those breakdowns, a fact that is in ample evidence at Amherst Home Health Care, a retail outlet on Lakeshore Road that sells health supplies to the general public. The sheer ingenuity of the engineers who are working on health aids these days is astounding. Amherst manager Tonia Marcelli has been in the business of selling orthotics for four years but she is continual- ly amazed at what she sees in the latest health-supplies catalogues. “So many people walk by and say, this is an interesting store,” Marcelli, 25, noted recently. “There are a lot of new products coming out every day.” Hanging on the walls and stacked on the ‘shelves of Amherst are dozens of devices serving as tributes to the sharp minds of health care engineers. There are elastic Shoelaces that fit in shoes and never need to . Amherst Home Health Care Helping people overcome handicap W Mar. . Lakeshore Road West (west of t McDonald’s) is one of three in the Toro area owned by Steve Bederman; the oth- are in the Danforth neighbourhood Toronto and in Scarborough. Marcelli and other Amherst consultai are registered orthotic fitters and maintain close relationship with physicians and 0th health care professionals. Prescriptions : required for many of the products sold the outlet. Marcelli sees a lot of people in great di tress. She finds herself fitting prostheses 0 women with recent mastectomies, and sa she often becomes a shoulder to lean 0 “You have to have sympathy for them notes Marcelli. “Sometimes they just ne someone to talk to. “There are days when you feel like c mg.” For the most part, though, there is t. pleasure of making life easier for her co tomers. Special cervical pillows and bla kets made of sheepskin can facilitate a goo night’s sleep for someone with an achin be tied or untied, for those with bad backs; no-slip slippers; right-angled eating utensils Would you like to feel more confident . back or neck, and mobility aids such as rol and secure in who you are? lators help provide an element of indepe ( . , for disabled children and large-handled dence with safety for elderly person. Would you hke t0 acunre knives and forks for those with arthritis; tap Amherst manager Tonia Marcelli displays Marcelli notes that the provincial gov a healthy sense of self? turners; tools for putting on socks and one of the store's reclinerliftchaim ernrnent Assistive Devices Program offer stocking without bending over; the EZ Shampoo, a basin for shampooing the hair of someone stuck in bed; and the recliner lift chair, an easy chair that pitches up and forward at a slow pace to help the owner stand up. The twin realities of restrained govern- ment spending onhealth care and an aging some funding towards walkers for qualifie applicants. to leave hospital beds earlier than in the past, and so Marcelli sees some customers needing extensive bandages, catheters and other post-surgical supplies. 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