Evidence for frequent divergence impairment in french dyslexic children: Deficit of convergence relaxation or of divergence per se?

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 245, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 931-936

  Kapoula, Zoï ^a   Bucci, Maria Pia ^a   Jurion, Frederic ^a   Ayoun, Julie ^a   Afkhami, Farzaneh ^b   Brémond Gignac, Dominique ^b  

^a l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

^b HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Children; Convergence; Divergence; Dyslexia; Visual training

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BINOCULAR VISION; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIVERGENT STRABISMUS; DYSLEXIA; ETHNOLOGY; FRANCE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORTHOPTICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; VISUAL ACUITY;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; CHILD; CONVERGENCE, OCULAR; DYSLEXIA; EXOTROPIA; FRANCE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; ORTHOPTICS; READING; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 35748940036     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: 1435702X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-006-0490-4     Document Type: Article

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