title: Visual handicaps of mentally handicapped people.
abstract: Recent literature concerning visual handicaps of mentally handicapped people was reviewed. Topic areas considered were etiology and epidemiology, visual acuity, color vision, and educational techniques. The material considered indicated that a large proportion of mentally handicapped people are affected by some form of visual handicap and the extent to which further specialization of care and training techniques is required in order to limit the extra disadvantages imposed by such defects.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001766:Blindness / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003118:Color Perception; D003117:Color Vision Defects / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D014792:Visual Acuity