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Schoessow, Kimberly A.; Gilbert, Leah M.; Jackson, Mary Lou – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2010
Central scotomas--areas of the nonseeing retina within the central 20 degrees of the visual field--are present in approximately 90% of vision rehabilitation patients. They vary in size and shape and can be small or large, symmetrical or asymmetrical, round or irregularly shaped. Most central scotomas border fixation on one side and can be overcome…
Descriptors: Intervention, Partial Vision, Vision, Patients
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LaGrow, Steven; Matson, Johnny L. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1984
A study involving two college students with visual impairments which made them incapable of accommodating visually revealed that Ss improved recognition efficiency with feedback but did not generalize the efficiency from trained to untrained stimuli of similar complexity. (CL)
Descriptors: College Students, Generalization, Higher Education, Partial Vision
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Bane, M. C.; Birch, E. E. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1992
As follow up to a study which compared forced-choice preferential looking (FPL) with pattern visual evoked potential (VEP), this study increased the VEP success rate and improved agreement between the FPL and VEP acuity estimates by using horizontal bar stimuli for young preverbal children (n=17) with nystagmus. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Followup Studies, Partial Vision, Preschool Children
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Amerson, Marie J. – RE:view, 1999
Lists strategies for promoting functional vision use in children with visual and motor impairments, including providing postural stability, presenting visual attention tasks when energy level is the highest, using a slanted work surface, placing target items in varied locations within reach, and determining the most effective visual adaptations.…
Descriptors: Children, Educational Strategies, Learning Strategies, Partial Vision