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Abstract
Visual impairment is a very important condition in people’s lives and
becomes even more important when it occurs in children who are not yet
fully developed. Fortunately, it is not a condition that occurs in many
children in the world, but it is present enough that health professionals can
check what allows their proper development. Thus, visual rehabilitation
allows them to enjoy their visual remains to the fullest. Moreover, this field
includes the provision of various optical and non-optical aids. These visual
aids provide children with a good quality of life within what their problem
allows.
In this study we monitored 140 children with vision impairment aged
from 6 to 18 years with visual acuity less than 6/18 in the better eye best
correction. Complete examination of the anterior and posterior segments
was done. Refractive errors were measured. Before and after using low
vision aids, near and far visual acuity was measured.
we found that the mean age of patients was 11.94 ± 3.61 Years old;
76 (54.29%) of the children were males and 64 (45.71%) of the children
were females. According to the distribution of the diagnoses Hereditary
fundus dystrophies were the most prevalent diagnosis among the children,
accounting for 28.57% of diagnoses, followed by albinism (20%). The
rehabilitation techniques that were mostly used were Telescopic glasses
(54.29%) for distant vision, electronic magnifiers (31.43%), and optical
magnifiers (20.0%) for near vision. Low vision devices were shown to
significantly improve both near and distant visual acuity.
So, Visual Rehabilitation for school-age children with visual
impairment can result in a considerable improvement in both distant and
near vision.