New Concept in Kids' and Teens' Eyewear: Optiwow.com Online Eyewear Retailer

from Digital Journal:
MIAMI, Nov. 6, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to seeing many children enter their optical shop at Miami Children's Hospital in Miami wearing ill-fitting eyewear, Ivonne Goldstein and her husband, Dr. Roberto Warman, an acclaimed pediatric neuro-ophthalmologist, are creating the next generation of online optical with their recently launched Optiwow.com. The site is the only online optical shop dedicated exclusively to kids and teens.
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Goldstein and Dr. Warman created the site when their optical shop of the same name – Optiwow – recently celebrated 15 years in business.  
Owners of Pediatric Ophthalmology Consultants at Miami Children's Hospital for more than 25 years, Goldstein, CEO of Optiwow.com, and Dr. Warman created the site to offer kids and teens access to a reasonably-priced, large selection of attractive, well-fit, high quality, age-appropriate children's prescription eyewear. The site offers products including eyeglasses, sunglasses, sports goggles, swim goggles, diving masks, eyewear for kids and teens with Down syndrome, and much more.
Chosen by optical experts, Optiwow.com's online kids' eyewear selection is displayed on the easy-to-navigate website, allowing the customer to choose glasses based on a child's age and gender. The site also provides frame shape guides and a virtual try-on application to test the frame styles on the child's face. Each pair is custom created, custom fit with top-quality lenses, and quality checked by Optiwow.com's licensed pediatric optical team.      
Optiwow.com stocks and curates prescription eyewear from top designers of children's glasses such as Disney®, Miraflex®, Nike Vision®, Converse®, Lucky®, Guess® and Ray-Ban®. The site carries only the latest styles and highest quality lenses for children, and avoids scaled-down versions of adult eyewear styles, focusing on the brands that cater their designs to a child's needs. Discontinued styles and copies are never an option on Optiwow.com.

SPECS4US providing custom frames for children with Down syndrome

SPECS4US was created and founded in 2004 by Maria Dellapina with over 25 years in the optical industry and the mother of a four-year-old with Down syndrome. She saw a definite need for this frame line. After two years of searching for an eyeglass frame to fit her daughter, Erin, Maria decided to use her knowledge as both an optician and mother to help Erin and others like her.

Erin's World™ is the frame line specially designed to fit children with Down syndrome superior to the typical frame. Unlike other frames, the bridge is adjusted to fit on their smaller noses and the temples (some people call them arms) are designed to help keep the glasses from constantly slipping. Erin's World frames are available in a variety of sizes and styles to fit toddlers to adults.

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To improve the sight and quality of life for children with Down syndrome by providing custom frames that fit their unique needs.

SPECS4US has designed a frame specially designed to fit children with Down syndrome. With a pair of Erin’s World frames your child will no longer be constrained from their eyeglasses. They will be able to explore the world freely and clearly without wearing glasses that are too big or are constantly slipping down their nose. These frames are made with your child’s unique needs in mind and solve the problems that regular eyeglasses never could.


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Optometrist Says 90 Percent of People With Down Syndrome Suffer Eye Diseases

from All Africa.com:
An optometrist, Dr Ogechi Nwokedi, said on Wednesday in Lagos that 90 per cent of people with Down syndrome suffer several eye conditions.
Nwokedi said this at an international seminar entitled: "Unique with a Difference" organised by the Down Syndrome Foundation of Nigeria.
"Most people with Down syndrome are at risk of suffering from eyesight problem.
"The most common ones include astigmatism, cataracts, long-sightedness, myopia, strabismus and refractive errors," she said.
Nwokedi urged parents and caregivers to take their children to eye doctor to prevent loss of sight.
She said that most of the visual problems could be treated easily and effectively with the wearing of eye glasses.
"Occasionally, surgery may, however, be required," she said, stressing that people with Down syndrome deserved and have a right to sight like everybody else.
Nwokedi also stressed the need for people to maintain good hygiene at all times, noting that everybody, able or disabled, has a right to good eye sight and examination.
"Nobody is too disabled to have an eye examination; people living with disabilities have a right to sight like everyone else."