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" Detection and Measurement of Visual Impairment in Pre-verbal Children Proceedings of a workshop held at the Institute of Ophthalmology, London on April 1-3, 1985, sponsored by the Commission of the European Communities a. "
Jay, Barrie
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773309
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Jay, Barrie
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Detection and Measurement of Visual Impairment in Pre-verbal Children Proceedings of a workshop held at the Institute of Ophthalmology, London on April 1-3, 1985, sponsored by the Commission of the European Communities a.\ Jay, Barrie
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Springer Verlag, 2013
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940094263X
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: 9789400942639
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Session I - Normal Development of Vision and Causes of Visual Impairment.- Organisation, development and early manipulations of primate's visual pathways.- Ocular growth and the normal development of vision: clinical aspects.- Genetic causes of visual impairment in childhood.- Non-genetic causes of visual impairment in early childhood.- The changing aetiology of visual impairment in early childhood in Greece.- Discussion.- Development of vision in visually impaired children.- Definitions of visual impairments and their consequences in infants and small children.- Discussion.- Session II - Electrophysiological and Psychophysical Tests - Theoretical Aspects.- Theoretical aspects of the pattern ERG.- Identification of first and second order Volterra kernels for the human electroretinogram.- Discussion.- Pattern VEPs in very young infants.- VER testing of cortical binocularity and pattern detection in infancy.- Discussion.- Session III - Measurement of Visual Acuity in Pre-verbal Children.- Visual function in the newborn infant: behavioural and electrophysiological studies.- Discussion.- Development of separation-ability of contours during childhood: quantification of the crowding phenomenon in amblyopia.- Measurement of visual acuity in young children by a new instrument: Casimir.- Discussion.- Evaluation of electrodiagnostic tests in children.- The pattern reversal ERG and its application to the measurement of infant visual acuity.- Discussion.- Measurement of visual acuity in infants and young children by visual evoked potentials.- Discussion.- Comparison of rapid procedures in forced choice preferential looking for estimating acuity in infants and young children.- Visual crowding in young children.- The development of preferential-looking visual acuity in human infants: a correlation with animal models.- Preferential looking acuity in normal and neurologically abnormal infants and pediatric patients.- Preferential looking for the detection of early amblyopia and monitoring early therapy.- Discussion.- Computer assisted evaluation of visual functions in non verbal children.- Discussion.- Visual acuity assessment with preferential looking1 in young children treated for opacities of lens and vitreous: a longitudinal study.- Refractive changes and retarded visual development in aphakic children after operation for congenital cataract.- Discussion.- Albinism: an anomaly of maturation of the visual pathway.- Discussion.- Session IV - Measurement of Other Functions.- Objective evaluation of binocular cooperation in normals and strabismics by means of visual evoked responses.- Discussion.- Dark adaptation assessment in childhood, especially early childhood (review).- Discussion.- Visual field measurements, optokinetic nystagmus and the visual threatening response: normal and abnormal development.- Discussion.- Nasal field defects in strabismic amblyopia.- Discussion.- Apparent blindness due to saccadic paralysis or delay.- Discussion.- Session V - Screening of Pre-verbal Children.- Experience with our present screening program.- Early detection of visual disorders in health centres in young children.- Discussion.- Problems of screening and its implications to the orthoptic service in West Berkshire.- Discussion.- Rapid assessment of visual acuity in infants and children in a clinical setting, using acuity cards.- To what extent is it possible to quantify monocular or binocular visual impairment in pre-verbal children? Role of clinical signs and of electrophysiological and psychophysical testing techniques.- Population vision screening and individual visual assessment.- Discussion.- Final Discussion.
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