Functional vision assessment in children with cerebral visual impairment

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Published: May 5, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2018.n1.v3.1242
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cerebral visual impairment CVI children functional vision assessment

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Carlos Manuel Santos Plaza
Centro de Recursos Educativos de la ONCE en Madrid

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Cerebral visual impairment is the main alteration of the visual function in children in developed countries. It is a different affectation, which is not located in the main organ of the visual sense, but is produced in the channels or in the centers of interpretation of the visual information. Thus, the  functional repercussions are also different and much more difficult to understand, evaluate and intervene, It is not surprising that it’s one of the areas with more lines of research in low vision in the international community. It is necessary to review how services are provided to these people with new rehabilitation programs, multidisciplinary care models and a complete evaluation of visual functions. In children with cerebral visual impairment, the main question to be solved is how the damage in the brain affects vision. When the visual system is damaged in the visual processing points, a wide range of effects are manifested and each one shows a combination of particular features which are apparently changing and contradictory. Only with a careful assessment, it is possible to get an approximation to the understanding of how the child sees, providing the guideline which should lead the intervention to try to optimize the visual efficiency. The assessment model introduced, considers that it is necessary to act systematically through interviews with parents and teachers who are the ones who better know the child’s visual behaviours, observations in the natural context, and direct evaluations of the most important visual tasks.

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Santos Plaza, C. M. (2018). Functional vision assessment in children with cerebral visual impairment. International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology. Revista INFAD De Psicología., 3(1), 137–146. https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2018.n1.v3.1242
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