RecruitingNot ApplicableNCT05600140

Viewing Strategy Training in Children With (Cerebral) Visual Impairment

Viewing Strategy Training in Children With (Cerebral) Visual Impairment: From Spontaneous Eye Movements to a Structured Viewing Strategy

Sponsor

Royal Dutch Visio

Enrollment

60 participants

Start Date

Oct 25, 2024

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Conditions

Vision, Low Vision Disorders

Summary

Viewing strategies are strategies used to process visual Information. Many children with visual impairment seem to lack systematic viewing strategies. However, it is unknown how viewing strategies differ between children with normal vision and children with (cerebral) visual impairment. In addition, viewing strategy training is often adopted in clinical practice, but till date there is no scientific evidence about effectiveness of this approach. The current project has two goals: (1) to measure viewing strategies used by children with normal vision, children with ocular visual impairment and children with CVI, and (2) to evaluate whether training viewing strategies results in more efficiënt visual Information processing.

Eligibility

Min Age: 5 YearsMax Age: 12 Years

Plain Language Summary

Simplified for easier understanding

This study develops and tests a training program to help children with visual impairment learn better strategies for looking at and processing visual information. Children with ocular visual impairment (from eye disease) and cerebral visual impairment (from brain damage) are enrolled alongside typically developing children for comparison. You may be eligible if: - Your child is 5 to 12 years old (5 to 9 for the training effectiveness part) - Your child has a confirmed diagnosis of ocular or cerebral visual impairment, OR is typically developing with normal vision - Your child has a verbal IQ above 70 You may NOT be eligible if: - Your child has a visual field of less than 30 degrees - Your child has a verbal IQ below 70 - Your child has attended vision training in the past two years - Your child has psychiatric problems like ASD or ADHD - Your child has auditory or language impairments - Your child experienced major life events during the training period Talk to your doctor to see if this trial is right for you.

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Interventions

BEHAVIORALViewing strategy training

Children receive a visual training of viewing strategies (six weeks, 2 times a week, 30 minutes). During the training, children are instructed to use specific viewing strategies (looking in a structured direction which fits the task at hand, zooming in and out / change of visual selective attentional field, visual discrimination). The verbal instructions and exercises are protocol-based. A textbook is used to describe the reactions of the children during training.