Background: Reading failure is far higher among disadvantaged students than among other students (National Center for Education Statistics, 2019). Many attempts to solve this have focused on schools, yet non-school factors have a substantial impact on learning (Clabaugh, 2008). One of these is uncorrected vision. Approximately 20-25% of school-age…

Annual health checks for people with learning disabilities are a concept that was introduced by the Government in 2001 as a catalyst to improve access to health services and identify health needs that have previously gone undetected. Nonetheless, to date, there has been little evidence of the effectiveness of these health checks. This study seeks…