While children with learning disabilities are 28 times more likely than their peers to have a serious sight issue, according to the charity, their sight is not regularly tested.
Research by the charity, based on 900 pupils, has found that more than half of all children tested in special schools had a vision problem – with 36 per cent needing glasses.
Forty-three per cent of pupils seen for the first time had no history of eye tests.
The charity has been collecting the data since 2013 while trialling a programme of sight tests and eye care for pupils in six London-based special schools, in collaboration with Cardiff University’s School of Optometry.
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