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Visual problems in people with severe mental handicap
Author(s) -
CASTAÑE M.,
PERIS E.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1993.tb00317.x
Subject(s) - psychology , incidence (geometry) , psychiatry , audiology , developmental psychology , medicine , optics , physics
The incidence of visual problems in people with mental handicaps is very high. Nine severely mentally handicapped patients were studied. Several objective and subjective oprometric tests were performed. The results showed the presence of different kinds of visual problems that were compensated for by optical methods. The subjects showed a general change in their behaviour. It is essential to give optometric care to such people.