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Alaska Blind Child Discovery

A cooperative, charitable research project to vision screen every preschool Alaskan
 

Koyukon ABCD Screening

 
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Starting in the Spring of 2003, Missionary Roger Huntington has flown ABCD screeners to villages in the Koyukon Region offering free enhanced vision screening and confirmatory exams for pre-schoolers and younger elementary students.
 
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Kids Eye Disorders
 
Amblyopia

Missionary Pilot Roger Huntington and GCS student Andrew Arnold display objective pre-school vision screen technology before flying Roger's Piper Pacer from Koyukuk to Nulato.

Alaska Medicine 2007 Publication

Koyukon 2006 Mission

Koyukon 2008 Mission

   
Vision Screening
May 12-15 2006 Mission
 
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Infants and younger children had confirmatory exams (cycloplegic refractions plus dilated retinal exams) to determine if they had amblyopia. WAMI medical student, Dustin Lang holds durable "Bambino" frame spectacles which were mailed to the children with amblyopia.

 
 
 
         
 
         
 
         
 
         
 
         
 
         
 
         
 
         
 
           

 

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