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Q&A: X Ambassadors’ Casey Harris On Being A Vision Through Music Program® Ambassador

Inside the world of multi-platinum records and global tours, Casey Harris — keyboardist for the GRAMMY®-winning band X Ambassadors — is taking on a transformative new role. Harris has officially partnered with the Vision Through Music Program®, an initiative of the Children’s Eye Foundation of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (CEF of AAPOS). This partnership aims to bridge the gap between specialized music education and visually impaired children, a cause deeply personal to the Ithaca-raised musician.

“I’m Blind, But Music Gave Me Sight” — X Ambassadors Keyboardist Casey Harris Becomes Ambassador for Vision Through Music®

By Paul Salfen, Christine Thompson for AMFM Magazine GRAMMY® award-winning keyboardist Casey Harris, best known as a founding member of the hit rock band X Ambassadors, has officially partnered with Vision Through Music®, a groundbreaking program of the Children’s Eye Foundation of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (CEF of AAPOS). The announcement marks a significant step in raising awareness about specialized music education for blind and visually impaired children.

Keyboardist for X Ambassadors, Casey Harris, Partners with Vision Through Music Program® to Expand Music Education Access for Visually Impaired Children

GRAMMY® award-winning artist Casey Harris, keyboardist for X Ambassadors, announced a new partnership with Vision Through Music®, a program of the Children's Eye Foundation of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (CEF of AAPOS).

Children’s Eye Foundation Transitions SIBA Program to Telemedicine Model to Create Self-Sustaining ROP Treatment Network in Africa 

Innovative telescreening initiative expands access to sight-saving care for premature infants across Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria

Getting Your Kid Vision Screenings for Back-to-School

FOX Rochester talks to Dr. Cate Jordan about back-to-school vision screenings, kids eye health, and how underinsured U.S. families can seek no-cost care through All Children See. 

Vision Care for Kids

AAPOS's Dr. Cate Jordan is invited to The Doug Wagner Show on WMT Radio to discuss how parents can detect early warning signs of vision issues, and when to get referred to a pediatric ophthalmologist. 

Why Vision Should Be At the Top of the Back to School Checklist

AAPOS's Dr. Cate Jordan joins ABC affiliate KOAT to discuss the importance of regular vision screenings and how CEF's All Children See program can help U.S. families connect with pediatric eye doctors for no-cost comprehensive eye exams.

AAPOS Dr. Michael Puente joins 9News Denver to Discuss On-Screen Representation

'Elio' is an example of positive representation in kids media, as characters with eye diseases are often portrayed in kids animated movies as villains, unintelligent, or followers.

Pixar’s ‘Elio’ Shows Main Character Wears an Eyepatch, Stirring Conversation Around Amblyopia and Kids Vision

Lazy eye affects up to 4% of kids. On-screen representation matters.

First Look: Klick unveils book to screen for color vision deficiency

The Curious Eye is designed to fill in a diagnosis gap around color vision deficiency. Globally, while 1 in 12 males and 1 in 200 females are affected by the condition, many schools and physicians’ offices don’t screen for it.

Colorblindness Exam Gets a Kid-Friendly Makeover

The traditional colorblindness test wasn’t designed for children. Groups in the U.S. and the U.K. are building more engaging, accessible alternatives.

Could Color Blindness Explain Your Child’s School Report?

As the school year wraps up, report cards are making their way to your inbox. If you're surprised at the contents, don’t call the tutor just yet. Color blindness may be the cause. Color blindness is common but, when undiagnosed, can lead to a child being labeled with behavioral or learning difficulties.

New Interactive Storybook Helps Screen Children for Color Vision Deficiency

The Children’s Eye Foundation of AAPOS recently unveiled the world’s first interactive children’s book to help screen for color vision deficiency (CVD), commonly known as color blindness.

Seeing color blindness through kids’ eyes, Klick Health helps foundation launch creative screening tool

Most children with color blindness don’t know it—how they see is simply how they see. The Children’s Eye Foundation wants to change that by helping ophthalmologists and parents screen for color blindness with a unique new children’s book.

Seeing Differently

The only crayons my son would use had to have the wrappers on, showing the names of the colors. I brushed it off as the peculiarities of a five-year-old, along with not letting the foods touch on his plate. Not long after, my father was diagnosed late in life as being color vision deficient. I had grown up thinking that my father simply had no interest in the color of anything. How easy it was to consider the behaviors to be idiosyncrasies rather than look for an underlying cause!

Children’s Book Could Help Catch Color Vision Deficiency

The Children’s Eye Foundation of AAPOS recently unveiled the world’s first interactive children’s book to help screen for color vision deficiency (CVD), commonly known as color blindness.

The Children’s Eye Foundation of AAPOS Debuts THE CURIOUS EYE

National children's vision nonprofit creates innovative child-friendly tool to help diagnose color blindness early and prevent challenges at an early age.