The Low Vision Steering Group is a sub-group of Vision 20 20 UK. The group has representatives from a number of organisations and charitable bodies that focus on improving the lives of people who are visually impaired. It takes a leading role in improving low vision services by supporting the development of local Low Vision Services Committees.
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Many children have to wear eye patches as part of sight saving treatment for squints or ‘lazy eyes’. On World Sight Day (11th October 2007) we launched a national competition encouraging young people to write a poem about wearing eye patches.
2 categories – children 9 years and under and children 9 to 16 years of age.
Prizes will be available and the results of the competition will be announced at the national children’s low vision conference in May 2008. Closing Date 19th March 2008. The prizes will be judged by Comic Performance Poet John Hegley