Brain structure in children with congenital visual disorders and visual impairment

The Efficacy of Occupational Therapy Intervention in Visual-Spatial and Visual Analysis Skills Development among Children with Learning Disorders

Objectives: The visual-motor skill is one of the major factors in the learning process. Visual-spatial and visual analysis skills are components of the visual motor skill. Any deficiency in Visual-Motor skills and their components often causes problem in writing and learning processes in children. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of occupational therapy (O.T.) intervention on...

Visual impairment in children.

The effect of visual impairment on emotional development and emotional competence in learners who are visual impairment

Abstract Background and Aim: Emotion is a strong affective perception or feeling that arises from personal circumstances, one's mood, or communication with others. Emotions are multidimensional and have holistic structures that consist of different dimensions such as behavioral expression, physiological layers, phenomenological experience, cognitive processes and social context. The aim of ...

Development of visual acuity in children with cerebral visual impairment.

OBJECTIVE To study the development of visual acuity in term-born children with cerebral visual impairment and a history of neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. METHODS We studied 19 term-born children, aged 6 months to 6 years, with moderate to severe neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy and behaviors indicative of cerebral visual impairment. Longitudinal measures of grating acuity w...

Are language and social communication intact in children with congenital visual impairment?1 Abbreviated title: Language and social communication in children with visual impairment

Background: Development of children with congenital visual impairment (VI) has been associated with se of sighted mediates such Methods: We al-range verbal intelligence in the context of i) a structured language assessment, ii) a parental report of everyday communicative behaviours, and iii) in comparison to a group of typically developing sighted children of their good and poorer use of were o...