Visual Function and Academic Performance
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This study was supported in part by grant 1 RO1 EY03708-03 from the National Institutes of Health and in part by a grant from Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc., New York, New York.
Reprint requests to Eugene M. Helveston, M.D., Department of Ophthalmology, Indiana University School of Medicine, 702 Rotary Circle, Indianapolis, IN 46223.