Personal Narrative: My Experience With Hearing And Vision Screening

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Monday I was at Abner Creek Academy assisting with hearing and vision screenings. This was a great experience for me because I have never participated in doing these screenings. On Tuesday I was back at Meyer Center for the last time. Last week at Meyer Center I was with the 3 to 4 year old group, so today I chose to be with the smaller age group which was 1 year old. This was a very unique group of children with a lot of different conditions to see. One child was on a feeding tube, but he was still able to eat puree foods as tolerated. There was another little boy in the class with spina bifida as well as other conditions that peaked my interest. This child was not able to urinate as a normal little boy should. He has a neurogenic bladder

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