Frequency of Visual Deficits in Children With Developmental Dyslexia.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Developmental dyslexia (DD) is a specific learning disability of neurobiological origin whose core cognitive deficit is widely believed to involve language (phonological) processing. Although reading is also a visual task, the potential role of vision in DD has been controversial, and little is known about the integrity of visual function in individuals with DD.

Objective

To assess the frequency of visual deficits (specifically vergence, accommodation, and ocular motor tracking) in children with DD compared with a control group of typically developing readers.

Design, setting, and participants

A prospective, uncontrolled observational study was conducted from May 28 to October 17, 2016, in an outpatient ophthalmology ambulatory clinic among 29 children with

SUBMITTER: Raghuram A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6583865 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature