This paper describes a potential supplement to new or existing community health programs. Title I of Public Law 89 750, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, provides innovative and remedial educational programs for children in poverty areas. It encourages the inculsion of health components which can readily be incorporated into community…

Presented at Joint meeting of the American School Health Association and the School Health Section of the American Public Health Association, Detroit, Michigan, November 11, 1968.

The authors believe that the classroom teacher should become the focus of case finding, and that the child's behavior and functioning should become the primary indicators of his health. Physical examinations could be used as diagnostic tests rather than screening tests. (Author)

The article concludes that a satisfactory program of vision screening requires a careful choice of testing procedures and referral policies, but it also requires decisions based on the philosophies of treatment of local practitioners and an understanding by parents of the purposes and methods of the program. (Author)

The article concludes that adequate screening, and the use of expensive diagnostic procedures (such as medical referral) only for children who have failed a screening test, will result in the most effective use of school health time and funds. (Author)

Briefly discusses several hearing screening methods, and indicates that standards for hearing tests are well established and are not controversial. (CJ)

Three methods of health assessment are described. Information can be obtained from the child, by a physical examination, from the parent, by an interview, or from the teacher by a teacher-nurse conference. (Author)