Screenings

State Mandated Screenings

Wall ISD conducts state mandated screenings each year for vision, hearing, spinal (scoliosis and kyphosis), and Acanthosis Nigricans (AN).

Vision and Hearing Screening

• Any student can be referred by a teacher, parent, principal, or physician

• Students referred by Special Education or 504. 

• All students in Kindergarten, 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th grades. 

• All students new to the state of Texas.

If a student currently wears prescription contacts, glasses, or hearing aids please be sure they have them on the date of screening.

• Kinder Vision Screening will be October 2 

• 1st grade Vision & Hearing Screening will be September 15th & 16th

• 3rd grade Vision & Hearing Screening will be September 17th & 18th

• Kinder Hearing Screening will be TBD

• 5th grade Vision & Hearing September 22nd & 23rd

• 7th grade Vision & Hearing September 29th & 30th

Spinal Screening

• Girls will be screened two times, at age 10 and 12 (or fall semester of 5th grade and fall semester of 7th grade)

• Boys will be screened once at age 13 or 14 (or fall semester of 8th grade)

• 5th grade girls spinal screening November 4th

• 8th grade boys spinal screening November 18th

• 7th grade girls spinal screening November 19th

Click the link below for more information on Spinal Screening. 

Spinal Screen Parent Letter 

Acanthosis Nigricans (AN)

• Acanthosis Nigricans (AN) serves as an indicator of risk for Type 2 diabetes and other chronic health problems. All students in the 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th grades are screened for acanthosis nigricans. This screen is typically done at the same time as vision and hearing screens. If a student is positive on the AN screen, further screening will take place in the spring. 

Exclusions/Refusal

• If a parent so chooses, they may request their child be excluded from the screen. If requesting exclusion, parents need to notify the school in written form with a signed and notarized affidavit, prior to the day of screening. It is recommended that the screen still be completed by the parents choice of medical provider and results of the screening be given to your campus nurse. 

• If your child is already under care of a medical provider related to the specific screening, please notify your campus nurse with current treatment documentation to be placed in the student's health record. Once written documentation of care has been received, student will be exempt from screening.