title: [Functional outcome of visually handicapped children cared for at the Department of Visual Stimulation--"Fundação Altino Ventura"].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the functional outcome of visually handicapped children.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty-seven children were evaluated using the standard functional PEDI test. Seventeen who attended school at "Escola Municipal Alto do Maracanã", Recife - Pernambuco, Brazil, had normal visual acuity and the other ten had visual handicap, and were cared for at Stimulation Visual Department - "Fundação Altino Ventura", in the same city.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The children who had visual handicap showed significantly worse performance in self-care and mobility than normal children.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Visual handicap may have limited the performance regarding self-care, mobility, understanding, communication, home works, in the studied group.
authors.affiliation: Fundação Altino Ventura, Recife, PE, Brasil.
authors.forename: Juliana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Malta
authors.forename: Daniela
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Endriss
authors.forename: Sueli
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rached
authors.forename: Terezinha
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Moura
authors.forename: Liana
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ventura
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D019988:Children with Disabilities; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D012648:Self Care; D019987:Persons with Visual Disabilities