Practice Guidelines: Addressing Vestibular and Visual Problems in the Neurologically Impaired Adult

Evidence-Based Practice Guidelines for the Management of Communication Disorders in Neurologically Impaired Individuals: Project Introduction

Prepared by: The Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences’ ad hoc Practice Guidelines Coordinating Committee, Lee Ann C. Golper (Chair), Robert T. Wertz, Carol M. Frattali, Kathryn Yorkston, Penelope Myers, Richard Katz, Pelagie Beeson, Mary R. T. Kennedy, Kathryn Bayles, and Julie Wambaugh (members) with co-sponsorship support form the Executive Board of the American Speech-L...

Some thoughts on ethical guidelines for the neurologically-impaired elderly.

the role of visual aids and translation in teaching vocabulary in est

the present study investigated the effect of the two vocabulary teaching techniques in est, namely the use of translation and the use of visual aids as two separate vocabulary teaching techniques. to answer the question of the study, a pretest (michigan test) was administered to the 58 randomly selected est students at khajeh nasiredin tusi university, faculty of mechanics. after the homogeneit...

Perimetry in young and neurologically impaired children: the Behavioral Visual Field (BEFIE) Screening Test revisited.

IMPORTANCE Visual field examination in young or neurologically impaired children is a challenge. As a result, the Behavioral Visual Field (BEFIE) Screening Test was developed in 1995. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the applicability of the BEFIE test in a large population of young or neurologically impaired children, its reliability and consistency of findings across time, and its potential diagnosti...

Visual behaviours of neurologically impaired children with cerebral visual impairment: an ethological study.

BACKGROUND/AIMS Visual functions of neurologically impaired children with permanent cerebral visual impairment (CVI) can be difficult to determine. This study investigated the behavioural profile of CVI children by means of ethological observations in order to gain a better understanding of their visual functions. METHODS Video registrations of nine subjects who were unable to undergo more or...