Visual impairment in children due to damage to the brain / edited by Gordon N. Dutton and Martin Bax.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dutton, Gordon.

Bax, Martin.

Series:

Clinics in developmental medicine ; Number 186.

Clinics in developmental medicine, 0069-4835 ; no. 186

186

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vision disorders in children.

Brain-damaged children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (784 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : Mac Keith, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-321) and index.

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ISBN:

1-908316-24-1

1-907655-27-1

OCLC:

826657954