Validity of the VERA visual skills screening

Optometry

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 571-579

  Gallaway, Michael ^a   Mitchell, G Lynn ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Binocular vision; Learning related vision problems; Ocular motility; School vision screening; VERA; Visual skills

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BINOCULAR VISION; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY; VISION TEST;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; CHILD; CONVERGENCE, OCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; SACCADES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISION SCREENING; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 77958553464     PISSN: 15291839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optm.2010.07.024     Document Type: Article

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