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The assessment and rehabilitation of vision in infants

Visual impairment impacts child’s development in a complex way. Therefore, it represents a large problem for a child that also affects the whole family and the community. Timely intervention based on appropriate stimulations can improve child’s visual functioning and facilitate development in all areas. Early recognition and high-quality assessment of the child with problems in visual functioning is crucial to provide timely intervention. High quality assessment encounters assessment of visual functions, functional vision and other child’s abilities. The aim of this review was to present basic visual functions and functional vision parameters that can be assessed in infants, and the basics of functional vision rehabilitation in infants. The differences in terms visual function and functional vision regarding assessment and rehabilitation of visual problems are described. In description of visual functions the emphasis is on functional problems that can occur as a result of impaired function. Four main areas of functional vision assessment are presented in relation to assessment of an infant. The special emphasis in this review is on the importance of assessing the whole child in all areas of development, and not only visual problems, because the effects of different impairments are mutually intertwined.

visual impairment ; visual functions ; functional vision ; assessment ; rehabilitation of vision ; visual development ; children

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