The Pediatric Low-Vision Patient

Abstract

The American Academy of Pediatrics states that 75% of learning during the early years is processed through vision; because vision is a learning sense,children with visual impairment may not learn to perform many tasks as quickly as those with normal vision. Children with subnormal vision often look and act like any other child in the classroom and on the playground making it difficult to distinguish them from normally sighted children. Children with low vision may wear thick glasses or even dark glasses, but they will run and jump as fearlessly as their playmates.