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The ophthalmologist's role in multidisciplinary assessment of developmentally handicapped children
Author(s) -
BANKES J. L. KENNERLEY
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
child: care, health and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2214
pISSN - 0305-1862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2214.1975.tb00214.x
Subject(s) - orthoptic , medicine , nystagmus , incidence (geometry) , multidisciplinary team , pediatrics , optometry , ophthalmology , strabismus , audiology , physics , nursing , optics
SUMMARY Among 200 children who had received routine ophthalmic and orthoptic examinations as part of their evaluation by a multidisciplinary assessment team, it was found that there was a high incidence of ocular defects. These defects included refractive errors (98 children), squint (74 children), nystagmus (15 children), cataract, retinopathy and optic atrophy. This high incidence of ocular defects emphasized the need for the routine ophthalmic examination of developmentally handicapped children in order to detect and treat ocular conditions which might otherwise have gone undetected, and enabled the visual sense of these children to be evaluated in relationship to their general development.