What can contact lenses do for your child?

Maximize your child's visual health and self esteem

Kids today have a myriad of battles in school from social pressures to academic performance to anxiety about...everything!  The Adolescent and Child Health Initiative to Encourage Vision Empowerment (ACHIEVE) Study, shows spectacles to be associated with poorer self-perception in adults if they were first worn during childhood. This study was designed to determine whether children who were dissatisfied with spectacle wear would benefit more from contact lenses than children who did not mind wearing glasses. A total of 484 eight-to-11-year-old nearsighted children participated in the randomized, single-masked trial conducted from September 2003 to October 2007 at five clinical centers in the United States.  The study concluded that contact lens wear improves children’s self-perceptions in several areas, like physical appearance, athletic competence, and social acceptance.  Scholastic competence was also higher for contact lens wearers, but only for those who were not satisfied with spectacle wear initially.