[Functional outcome of visually handicapped children cared for at the Department of Visual Stimulation--"Fundação Altino Ventura"].
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.
Malta
Juliana
J
Fundação Altino Ventura, Recife, PE, Brasil.
Endriss
Daniela
D
Rached
Sueli
S
Moura
Terezinha
T
Ventura
Liana
L
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