Accommodative function in school children with reading difficulties

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 246, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1769-1774

  Palomo Álvarez, Catalina ^a   Puell, María C ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Accommodative function; Binocular accommodative facility; Monocularaccommodative amplitude; Poor readers; Relative accommodation; School age children

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ADOLESCENT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOCULAR VISION; OPTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SPAIN; SPECTACLES; VISUAL ACUITY;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SCHOOLS; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISION, MONOCULAR;

EID: 56049104454     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-008-0921-5     Document Type: Article

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