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Visual impairment in infancy: impact on neurodevelopmental and neurobiological processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2002

Patricia M Sonksen  and
Naomi Dale
Patricia M Sonksen
Affiliation:
Institute of Child Health, University College, London, UK.
Naomi Dale
Affiliation:
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London, UK.
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Abstract

This review draws together current understanding of the impact of visual impairment (VI) on early neurodevelopmental and neurobiological processes. The impact is recognized as being substantial. Two major problems make it difficult to draw conclusions from much of the literature on this subject. The first is the heterogeneity of samples of children with VI in terms of additional impairments that introduce multiple confounding variables: in Western societies the prevalence of additional impairments is 60 to 70%. Secondly, subgrouping according to the degree or severity of VI is inconsistent and can be suboptimal for developmental studies of infancy. Our group has reconsidered these questions of taxonomy and applied new ones to our recent research cohorts.

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Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology , Volume 44 , Issue 11 , November 2002 , pp. 782 - 791
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© 2002 Mac Keith Press

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