Monocular oral reading performance after amblyopia treatment in children.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To evaluate the monocular oral reading rate, accuracy, fluency, and comprehension in 10-year-old children previously treated for amblyopia.

Design

Prospective, observational case series.

Methods

Seventy-nine children (mean age, 10.3 years) previously treated in a multicenter randomized trial comparing patching and atropine were tested at seven sites using a modification of the Gray Oral Reading Test, Fourth Edition (GORT-4).

Results

The mean visual acuities (VA) in the amblyopic and fellow eyes at the time of the reading assessment were 0.17 logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution (logMAR) units (approximately 20/32) and -0.03 logMAR units (approximately 20/20), respectively. Compared with the sound eye, amblyopic eye performance was worse when rea

SUBMITTER: Repka MX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2713113 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature