title: [The reading speed of adolescent with low vision used electronic visual aids].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the reading speed of adolescents with different causes of low vision using electronic visual aids.
  
  
  METHODS
  The screening of 10 young students from Quanzhou Blind School could read Chinese N5 print by different optical aids. After their refractive correction and ophthalmic examination, the reading speeds with Chinese N5 print were measured using various optical and electronic visual aids.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The reading speed of (34.36±5.06) word / min by electronic visual aids performed faster than that of (18.50±6.54) word / min by optical visual aids in 10 young students with low vision (P<0.05). The reading speed of young people with low vision due to different causes had no direct linear correlation with their near visual acuity（P>0.05）.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The electronic visual aids more significantly improve the reading speed of young people with low vision than the optical visual aids did. The reading speed of young people with low vision is not relevant to their near visual acuity induced by different causes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, The Second Affilliated Hospital of Fujina Medical University, Quanzhou 362000, China.
authors.forename: Wenjian
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: Jinyu
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Su
authors.forename: Lian
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Yihong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Shouwu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Shuihua
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Shaorong
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Jianmin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001296:Audiovisual Aids; D006801:Humans; D011932:Reading; D015354:Vision, Low; D014792:Visual Acuity; D019987:Persons with Visual Disabilities