Providing Access to the Visual Environment

Description

Providing Access to the Visual Environment is a pediatric low vision grant which has the ability to provide comprehensive, interdisciplinary low vision rehabilitation services to every child in Tennessee with a vision impairment. Children, ages 3-21, with best-corrected vision of 20/50 or worse in the better seeing eye are prescribed optical devices to improve their visual functioning and trained to use the devices.

Conditions

Vision Impairment

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

Providing Access to the Visual Environment is a pediatric low vision grant which has the ability to provide comprehensive, interdisciplinary low vision rehabilitation services to every child in Tennessee with a vision impairment. Children, ages 3-21, with best-corrected vision of 20/50 or worse in the better seeing eye are prescribed optical devices to improve their visual functioning and trained to use the devices.

Providing Access to the Visual Environment

Providing Access to the Visual Environment

Condition
Vision Impairment
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Nashville

Saige Wilkins, Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37232

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Children who do not have the potential to become readers or use their vision for reading

Ages Eligible for Study

3 Years to 21 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

Vanderbilt University,

Lori Ann Kehler, O.D., PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Vanderbilt Eye Institute

Study Record Dates

2028-12