Manual: Assessment of Low Vision.
empfehlen| Titel: | Manual: Assessment of Low Vision. |
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| Form: | Aufsatz / Artikel |
| Autor(en): | Lea Hyvärinen |
| Jahr: | 0 |
| Auflage: | 1 |
| Auszug: | Assessment of Low Vision in children has two main purposes: 1. to give basic information on functional vision for selection of teaching techniques or 2. to help in planning of early intervention. Assessment of Functional Vision is usually needed for decision whether the infant or child is eligible for early intervention, special services or special education. In most countries these services are limited to children who are at least moderately visually impaired. In some countries the child needs to be severely visually impaired or "legally blind". Since there is no internationally accepted classification of visual impairment in infants and children, many countries use classifications originally developed for workman's compensation. Users of these classifications do not seem to realise that vision cannot be assessed in young children as it is assessed in adult people and that the role of vision in the life of an infant and child is different from the role of vision in an adult person who loses vision. (Quelle: Einleitung) |