Providing Access to the Visual Environment
| Status: | Recruiting |
|---|---|
| Conditions: | Ocular |
| Therapuetic Areas: | Ophthalmology |
| Healthy: | No |
| Age Range: | 3 - 21 |
| Updated: | 3/3/2019 |
| Start Date: | July 2001 |
| End Date: | December 2028 |
| Contact: | Lori Ann F Kehler, O.D. |
| Email: | lori.ann.kehler@Vanderbilt.Edu |
| Phone: | 615-936-2020 |
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.
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.
Subjects are enrolled each school year based on referrals from school systems in Tennessee,
ophthalmologists, and optometrists. A total of 90 new students are enrolled each year.
Students are provided a comprehensive low vision rehabilitation evaluation by a low vision
optometrist and prescribed optical devices to improve distance appreciation, near reading,
and other tasks based on individual needs. Students are then trained to use the devices
efficiently by master's level teachers of the visually impaired. The teachers travel to the
students environment (school/home/work) for the training.
Variables such as ocular disease, age, visual acuity, visual improvement with optical
devices, type of optical device, and reading speed are defined for each student. Providing
Access to the Visual Environment also provides...
ophthalmologists, and optometrists. A total of 90 new students are enrolled each year.
Students are provided a comprehensive low vision rehabilitation evaluation by a low vision
optometrist and prescribed optical devices to improve distance appreciation, near reading,
and other tasks based on individual needs. Students are then trained to use the devices
efficiently by master's level teachers of the visually impaired. The teachers travel to the
students environment (school/home/work) for the training.
Variables such as ocular disease, age, visual acuity, visual improvement with optical
devices, type of optical device, and reading speed are defined for each student. Providing
Access to the Visual Environment also provides...
Inclusion Criteria:
Children age 3 to 21 years of age Enrollment in a school in Tennessee (private or public)
- Children that are eligible for services due to visual impairment Low vision
Exclusion Criteria:
- Children who do not have the potential to become readers or use their vision for
reading
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Nashville, Tennessee 37232
Principal Investigator: Lori Ann Kehler, O.D
Phone: 615-936-3465
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