Viewing Strategy Training in Children With (Cerebral) Visual Impairment: From Spontaneous Eye Movements to a Structured Viewing Strategy
Viewing Strategy Training in Children With (Cerebral) Visual Impairment: From Spontaneous Eye Movements to a Structured Viewing Strategy
Viewing strategies are strategies used to process visual Information. Many children with visual impairment seem to lack systematic viewing strategies. However, it is unknown how viewing strategies differ between children with normal vision and children with (cerebral) visual impairment. In addition, viewing strategy training is often adopted in clinical practice, but till date there is no scientific evidence about effectiveness of this approach.
The current project has two goals: (1) to measure viewing strategies used by children with normal vision, children with ocular visual impairment and children with CVI, and (2) to evaluate whether training viewing strategies results in more efficiënt visual Information processing.
Inclusion criteria typically developing children with normal vision:
Inclusion criteria for children with ocular visual impairment:
Inclusion criteria for children with cerebral visual impairment:
Additional inclusion criterion for study 2 (evaluating training effectiveness): children with (cerebral) visual impairment should have an indication for viewing strategy training. Training should not be indicated if children have no problems performing academic tasks (i.e. when speed and accuracy of visual processing is within the normal range). The age range for study 2 is 5-9 years.
Exclusion criteria:
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