The MoviText method: Efficient pre-optical reading training in persons with central visual field loss

Technology and Disability

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 211-221

  Gustafsson, Jögen ^a   Inde, Krister ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Central visual field loss (CFL); Eccentric viewing; Microscopic lenses; Pre optical reading training; Preferred retinal locus (PRL)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CENTRAL SCOTOMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; READING; SPECTACLES; TRAINING; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION;

EID: 10044244018     PISSN: 10554181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/tad-2004-16403     Document Type: Article

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