Vision therapy for the child with cerebral palsy.
There has been an abundance of data collected on the high prevalence of visual anomalies in cerebral palsy. Relatively little has been written about remediation. This article discusses the problems encountered in the CP population, and therapy programs which can be utilized to deal with them. Heavy emphasis is placed on ocular motility and accommodation because deficits in these two visual skills are encountered very frequently, are most amenable to therapy, and show the greatest improvement as a result of vision therapy.
D000065:Accommodation, Ocular; D000293:Adolescent; D002547:Cerebral Palsy / Q000150:complications*; D002648:Child; D005081:Exercise Therapy; D005139:Eyeglasses; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000150:complications; D009069:Movement Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D009801:Oculomotor Muscles; D009907:Optometry / Q000379:methods; D012438:Saccades; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology