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Visual Impairment in Children due to Damage to the Brain
Gordon Dutton (Edited by), GN Dutton (Author), Martin Bax (Edited by)
9781898683865, Wiley
Hardback, published 6 August 2010
224 pages
24.1 x 17.5 x 2.5 cm, 0.93 kg
"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" (Breitbart.com: Business Wire, 16 February 2011) “this text is a much needed seminal contribution to the growing awareness and knowledge about the number one cause of pediatric vision loss in developed countries. The availability of such diverse amount of compiled research and information in a single publication makes it a valuable and necessary contribution to professional libraries.” (Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, April 2011)
Clinics in Developmental Medicine No.186 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.
Authors’ Appointments ix Foreword xiii Preface xv Introduction 1 1 The Functional Organization of the Central Visual Pathways 5 2 Causes of Damage to the Visual Brain 20 3 Clinical Features and Diagnostic Imaging of Damage to the Visual Brain 41 4 Impairments of Central Visual Function and its Measurements 77 5 Impairment of Peripheral Vision and its Measurements 85 6 Abnormalities of Refraction and Accommodation and their Management 98 7 Clinical Features of Perceptual and Cognitive Visual Impairment in Children with Brain Damage of Early Onset 106 8 Impairment of Cognitive Vision: Its Detection and Measurement 117 9 The Effect of Impaired Vision on Development 162 10 Psychiatric Considerations in Cortical Visual Impairment 174 11 Children with Severe Brain Damage: Functional Assessment for Diagnosis and Intervention 181 12 Visual Impairment in Cerebral Palsy 194 13 Children with Intellectual Disabilities and Cerebral Visual Impairment: Problems with Detection and Diagnosis 205 14 Practical Approaches for the Management of Visual Problems Due to Cerebral Visual Impairment 217 15 Strategies to Support the Development and Learning of Children with Cerebral Visual Impairment at Home and at School: Communication, Orientation, and Mobility 227 16 Approaches to the Management in Schools of Visual Problems Due to Cerebral Visual Impairment 236 17 Strategies to Help Children who have Both Visual and Hearing Impairments 245 18 Setting up Integrated Services for Children with Cerebral Visual Impairment 257 19 Classification of Visual Functioning and Disability in Children with Visual Processing Disorders 265 20 Towards the Development of a Classification of Vision-Related Functioning – A Potential Framework 282 Appendix: Conversion Table for Different Measures of Visual Activity 295 Glossary 323 Index 337
Melvyn A. Goodale
William V. Good and Anne B. Fulton
Giorgio Porro and Dienke Wiffebol-Post
J. Margaret Woodhouse
Gordon N. Dutton, with Elisabeth Macdonald, Suzannah R. Drummond, Shohista Saidkasimova, and Katherine Mitchell
Elisa Fazzi, Sabrina G. Signorini, and Josée Lanners
Roger D. Freeman
Jenefer Sargent, Alison Salt and Naomi Dale
Elisa Fazzi, Sabrina G. Signorini, and Paolo E. Bianchi
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Gordon N. Dutton, with Debbie Cockburn, Gillian McDald, and Elisabeth Macdonald
Marianna Buultjens, Lea Hyvärinen, and Renate Walthes
Stuart Aitken
Margot Campbell and Marianna Buultjens
Lea Hyvärinen
August Colenbrander
Subject Areas: Other branches of medicine [MM]
