The importance of assessing vision in disabled children – and how to do it

Children with disabilities are at a much higher risk of having visual impairment than those without disabilities (10.5% vs 0.16%) and are also at higher risk of other ocular disorders such as strabismus and refractive error. One reason for this higher rate among disabled children is that brain injur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Richard Bowman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Centre for Eye Health (ICEH), London 2016-07-01
Series:Community Eye Health Journal
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Online Access:http://www.cehjournal.org/article/the-importance-of-assessing-vision-in-disabled-children-and-how-to-do-it/