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

Publication Info. London : Mac Keith, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 352 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Clinics in developmental medicine ; no. 186
Clinics in developmental medicine ; no. 186. 0069-4835
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-321) and index.
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.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Vision disorders in children.
Vision disorders in children.
Brain-damaged children.
Brain-damaged children.
Vision Disorders -- etiology.
Adolescent.
Brain Damage, Chronic -- complications.
Child.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Dutton, Gordon.
Bax, Martin.
Other Form: Print version: Visual impairment in children due to damage to the brain. London : Mac Keith, 2010 9781898683865 (DLC) 2011414739 (OCoLC)656763310
ISBN 9781907655272 (electronic book)
1907655271 (electronic book)
9781898683865
1898683867