Waterloo: New research from the University of Waterloo’s School of Optometry
and Vision Science and CNIB found nearsightedness in children increases
drastically from Grade 1 to Grade 8, with almost a third of the cases
going undiagnosed and uncorrected. The landmark study, entitled Myopia Prevelence in Canadian School
Children, found nearsightedness-also known as myopia-increases from six
per cent to 28.9 per cent between the ages of six and 13. Children from
the Waterloo Region District School Board and Waterloo Catholic District
School Board participated in the landmark study, with 17.5 per cent of
them being nearsighted.
