Friends for Sight was established in 1955 as Prevent Blindness
Utah. Our purpose is to provide vision screening for children
for Amblyopia (Lazy-Eye Blindness) and preserve sight. Since
1955, over 559,935 children – that’s over “A Million eyes” –
have been screened. In addition, over 403,666 adults have been
screened for Glaucoma, the sneak thief of sight. Since we
established the high school drivers training vision screening
program in March of 2001, 129,898 students have been screened in
schools throughout the state. Children’s vision screening is
important at any age, ideally at age 3, when children’s eyes are
developing binocular vision. A child will not complain about
poor vision, because they don’t know how well they should see.
Poor vision does not cause nor is it accompanied by any external
signs. Amblyopia remains our number one concern, because the
window of detection and treatment is narrow – between the ages
of 3 and 7 years old – after which the child may be legally
blind for life in the Amblyopi