The Developmental Eye Movement Test as a Diagnostic Aid in Cerebral Visual Impairment.

ABSTRACT: The symptoms that characterize children with cerebral visual impairments (CVI) are diverse, ranging from extensive behavioral or physical disabilities to subtle changes that can easily be missed. A correct diagnosis of CVI is therefore difficult to make, but having a wide variety of tests available can be helpful. This study aims to determine if the developmental eye movement test (DEM) can be one of those tests. In this test, a fixed set of numbers has to be read aloud, first in vertical columns and then in horizontal lines. In order to measure differences between children with CVI compared to normally sighted age-matched controls and children with a visual impairment (VI), we determined DEM times, crowding intensities and the reaction time to a large visual stimulus for all three groups.

SUBMITTER: Tanke N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8582923 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature