Visual Impairment in Children due to Damage to the Brain

Gordon N. Dutton, Martin Bax

• Publisher: Mac Keith Press
• Year: 2010
• ISBN:
  9781898683865
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Opthalmology & Optometry

The increased awareness of cerebral visual impairment in children, combined with improved recognition of its wide ranging manifestations, has led to its recognition as the most common cause of visual impairment in children in the developed world. Yet the subject is in its infancy, with very little published to date. Information on this complex topic has been needed by all disciplines working with disabled children for many years.This ambitious book links the work of authors from many of the major research teams in this field, who have made significant contributions to the literature on the subject of cerebral visual impairment and provide a structured amalgam of the viewpoints of different specialists. The book contains some very novel concepts, which will be of great practical value to those who care for children with visual impairment due to brain injury. Summaries of the more specialist chapters as well as clear diagrams and a glossary have been provided to increase the book's accessibility to a broader readership.This is an exciting and important field, to which this book makes a major contribution.

Table of contents

• Authors’ appointments
• Foreword
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1 The Functional Organization of the Central Visual Pathways
• 2 Causes of Damage to the Visual Brain
• 3 Clinical Features and Diagnostic Imaging of Damage to the Visual Brain
• 4 Impairments of Central Visual Function and its Measurement
• 5 Impairment of Peripheral Vision and its Measurement
• 6 Abnormalities of Refraction and Accommodation and their Management
• 7 Clinical Features of Perceptual and Cognitive Visual Impairment in Children with Brain Damage of Early Onset
• 8 Impairment of Cognitive Vision: Its Detection and Measurement
• 9 The effect of Impaired Vision on Development
• 10 Psychiatric Considerations in Cortical Visual Impairment
• 11 Children with Severe Brain Damage: Functional Assessment for Diagnosis and Intervention
• 12 Visual Impairment in Cerebral Palsy
• 13 Children with Intellectual Disabilities and Cerebral Visual Impairment: Problems with Detection and Diagnosis
• 14 Practical Approaches for the Management of Visual Problems due to Cerebral Visual Impairment
• 15 Strategies to Support the Development and Learning of Children with Cerebral Visual Impairment at Home and at School: Communication, Orientation, and Mobility
• 16 Approaches to the Management in Schools of Visual Problems due to Cerebral Visual Impairment
• 17 Strategies to Help Children who have Both Visual and Hearing Impairments
• 18 Setting Up Integrated Services for Children with Cerebral Visual Impairment
• 19 Classification of Visual Functioning and Disability in Children with Visual Processing Disorders
• 20 Towards the Development of a Classification of Vision-related Functioning – A Potential Framework
• Appendix
• Glossary
• index