Ocular and visual status among children in special schools in Wales: The burden of unrecognised visual impairment

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 500-504

  Woodhouse, J Margaret ^a   Davies, Nathan ^b   McAvinchey, Aideen ^a   Ryan, Barbara ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Royal National Institute of Blind People   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; BLEPHARITIS; CATARACT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT STRABISMUS; DIVERGENT STRABISMUS; EYE CARE; EYE DISEASE; EYE EXAMINATION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; LOW VISION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEIBOMIAN GLAND DYSFUNCTION; MYOPIA; NYSTAGMUS; OPTOMETRY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL; SPECTACLES; TELEPHONE INTERVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM; VERTICAL STRABISMUS; VISION TEST; VISUAL ACUITY; ACCOMMODATION DISORDER; HEALTH SERVICE; PARENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFRACTION ERROR; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TEACHER; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; PRESCRIPTION;

REFRACTIVE ERRORS; SPECIAL NEEDS; VISION SCREENING; VISUAL DEFECTS;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EDUCATION, SPECIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; SCHOOLS; VISION DISORDERS; VISION SCREENING; VISUAL ACUITY; WALES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901204361     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2013-304866     Document Type: Article

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