[IAEP] [Olpc-open] Healthcare - Potential Opportunity

[Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn]

> help detect color blindness, dyslexia and other common vision issue
+1

Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 23:53:43 -0500
Subject: Re: [IAEP] [Olpc-open] Healthcare - Potential Opportunity
From: sthomas1 at gosargon.com
To: alanjas at hotmail.com
CC: andrycaa at gmail.com; olpc-open at lists.laptop.org; sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org; iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org

What would also, be good would be tests included in the activity to help detect color blindness, dyslexia and other common vision issues that affect kids ability to read/learn.  My one son had a hard time learning to read and it took us a while to find a doctor who could diagnose the issue.  Turns out he would occasionally see two fingers when we held up one and things would sometimes "shake".  He was bright otherwise so he had coping mechanisms, but it would have been good to catch this earlier, as there were a simple set of exercises that helped correct the issues and improve his reading. 

Stephen

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:45 PM, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn <alanjas at hotmail.com> wrote:




And maybe in the sugar-devel you can obtain more ideas..
Or in IAEP..

From: alanjas at hotmail.com
To: andrycaa at gmail.com; olpc-open at lists.laptop.org

Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 04:29:54 +0000
Subject: Re: [Olpc-open] Healthcare - Potential Opportunity




Hello,
Maybe develop an activity to explain the parts of the eye.. There are some activitys called "Conozco" thatallow make simple question about an image.
The usual uses: geography; where is the city where born xxxx? And the answer, click on a city.The same code can be used to this activity with minor changes.An example of the geography use: "I know America" [1]
Another use: health food "Conozco Alimentos" [2]
Another idea: make a "vision test". With random letters (to evite that the childrens memorize the letters)you put the XO to a some distance, and ask for the first line (0.2 or similar) and continues with small
letters.
Regards!
Alan

[1] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4464
[2] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4324

Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 23:19:16 -0500
From: andrycaa at gmail.com

To: olpc-open at lists.laptop.org
Subject: [Olpc-open] Healthcare - Potential Opportunity

Hello, I'm new to this venue but am looking to contribute and/or determine if I might have some material that would benefit the community.  I work for a healthcare company that specializes in vision and was wondering if there was any need for material on healthy vision or perhaps an interactive eye model to teach children about the different parts of the eye.  It could be anything in this realm really - the sky is the limit.  


My company is constantly looking for ways to give back and if there was some interest in this I'd look to build a more robust case and inquire more deeply into whether the company would be willing to put some resources behind this.


Is there anyone on this distribution list that would be able to point me in the right direction?
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