Providing Access to the Visual Environment
Vanderbilt University
Summary
Providing Access to the Visual Environment is a pediatric low vision grant which has the ability to provide comprehensive, interdisciplinary low vision rehabilitation services to every child in Tennessee with a vision impairment. Children, ages 3-21, with best-corrected vision of 20/50 or worse in the better seeing eye are prescribed optical devices to improve their visual functioning and trained to use the devices.
Description
Subjects are enrolled each school year based on referrals from school systems in Tennessee, ophthalmologists, and optometrists. A total of 90 new students are enrolled each year. Students are provided a comprehensive low vision rehabilitation evaluation by a low vision optometrist and prescribed optical devices to improve distance appreciation, near reading, and other tasks based on individual needs. Students are then trained to use the devices efficiently by master's level teachers of the visually impaired. The teachers travel to the students environment (school/home/work) for the training.…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 3–21 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria: Children age 3 to 21 years of age Enrollment in a school in Tennessee (private or public) \- Children that are eligible for services due to visual impairment Low vision Exclusion Criteria: * Children who do not have the potential to become readers or use their vision for reading
Location
- Saige WilkinsNashville, Tennessee