Seeing it my way: Living with childhood onset visual disability

Child: Care, Health and Development

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 239-248

  Tadic V ^a   Hundt, Lewando G ^b   Keeley, S ^b   Rahi, J S ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Childhood disability; Children's views; Interviews; Paediatric ophthalmology; Quality of life; Visual impairment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HANDICAPPED CHILD; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INDEPENDENT LIVING; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; ONSET AGE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; DISABLED CHILDREN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDEPENDENT LIVING; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LONDON; MALE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84922604381     PISSN: 03051862     EISSN: 13652214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cch.12158     Document Type: Article

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