The study was intended to investigate how vision screening in the elementary schools, the most basic tool to identify visually impairment children were being performed. Health care teachers in the 291 elementary schools in Busan were surveyed on the vision screening method they have performed in the school. A total of 105 volumes of questionnaire finished were retrieved and analyzed. Based on the results, findings on vision screening in elementary schools are as follows.
Firstly, health care teachers has not been provided with systematic preliminary education on vision screening. Secondly, the most common practice of vision screening in elementary schools was to start the test from the first grade days, and only at physical examination. Most of vision screening in the elementary schools were performed by homeroom teacher, and in the form of group test by class. Thirdly, for students who are difficult to take an normal vision screening, 67.76% of the health care teachers in the study have experienced such a student, and the reason why vision screening was difficult was that such students have a difficulty in reading vision chart. In that cases, the most common post action was to commit such students to vision doctor, while more number of teachers didn\'t perform any modified vision screening such as adjusting the distance to vision chart, symbol learning, and picking out figures of a shape.
As a conclusion, as vision screening is the most basic tool to find out visually impairment students, systematic education on how to perform vision screening should be provided so as to find such students who are visually impairment or in need of visual assistance more earlier and take adequate educational actions for them.