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Visual impairment in children due to damage to the brain /

Cerebral visual impairment is the most common cause of visual impairment in the developed world. This book describes function, disfunction and management strategies for clinicians.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dutton, Gordon, Bax, Martin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Mac Keith, 2010.
Colección:Clinics in developmental medicine ; no. 186.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The visual brain, and the causes & imaging of cerebral pathology affecting vision
  • The functional organization of the central visual pathways
  • Causes of damage to the visual brain
  • Common aetiologies of cerebral visual impairment
  • Visual dysfunction and ocular findings associated with white matter damage of immaturity
  • Visual dysfunction associated with hydrocephalus
  • Diagnostic imaging of damage to the visual brain
  • Imaging of disorders affecting the visual brain
  • Correlation between imaging and early visual development
  • Visual problems resulting from damage to the visual brain
  • Impairment of central visual function and its measurement
  • Impairment of peripheral vision and its measurement
  • Abnormalities of refraction and accommodation and their management
  • Clinical features of perceptual and cognitive visual impairment in children with brain damage of early onset
  • Impairment of cognitive vision: its detection and measurement
  • Structured clinical history taking for cognitive and perceptual visual dysfunction and for profound visual disabilities due to damage to the brain in children
  • Objective behavioural and electrophysiological measures for assessing visual brain function in infants and young children
  • Psychometric evaluation of higher visual disorders: strategies for clinical settings
  • The effect of impaired vision on development
  • Psychiatric considerations in cerebral visual impairment
  • Disorders commonly accompanied by cerebral visual impairment
  • Children with severe brain damage: functional assessment for diagnosis and intervention
  • Visual impairment in cerebral palsy
  • Children with intellectual disabilities and cerebral visual impairment: problems with detection and diagnosis
  • Helping children with cerebral visual impairment
  • Approaches to deal with visual problems due to cerebral visual impairment
  • The principles
  • Strategies to support the development and learning of children with CVI at home and at school: Communication and Orientation and Mobility
  • Strategies to support the development and learning of children with cerebral visual impairment, at home and at school: Sustained Visual Work and Activities of Daily Living (ADL)
  • Strategies to help children who have both visual and hearing impairments Setting up integrated services for children with cerebral visual impairment
  • Classification of cerebral visual impairment
  • Classification of visual functioning and disability in children with visual processing disorders due to cerebral visual impairment
  • Towards the development of a classification of vision-related functioning: a framework.