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Bob Kirkpatrick/The Sun Tribune - Janet Axtman, Scootney Elementary assistant nurse, administers a hearing test to a student at Lutacaga.
Annual hearing and vision tests for thousands of local school kids were conducted at Lutacaga Elementary School Friday, Sep. 29.
The hearing test was comprised of a series of beeps in which kids are equipped with a set of head phones hooked up to a machine that produces audible tones. They were asked to raise their hands when they hear them, no matter how slight they might be.
The vision examinations were administered by a handheld auto refractor vision screening device called the Plusoptix, which is used to detect prevalent vision disorders in kids.
Undetected and untreated disorders can cause Amblyopia, also known as lazy eye according to the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus.
The hearing and vision tests were administered to all the elementary schools in the district, which translates to roughly 3,000 kids.