Ophthalmic screening of the mentally defective.
Rationale, technique, and equipment required for mass, but accurate, ophthalmic screening of mental defective children is described. A review of the various diagnoses of systemic and ocular diseases of children attending special retarded schools is presented. Conditions in which the author thought correction was warranted are discussed. The philosophy of dealing with such patients is presented.
D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000150:complications; D008722:Methods; D009885:Ophthalmology / Q000295:instrumentation; D009887:Ophthalmoscopy; D014787:Vision Tests / Q000379:methods