Parents and Professionals

 Common Terms used to describe vision

• Visual Acuity:
  • - What does it mean?
  • - How is it measured?
  • - Printable examples of letters/pictures suitable for different levels of Visual acuity
• What is Refractive error?
• What is Strabismus/Squint?
• What is Nystagmus?
• What does "Visual field" mean?
• What is Cerebral Visual Impairment or CVI?
• What is Accommodation?
• What is Contrast Sensitivity?
• What does “Crowding” mean?

 How to get a Spectacle prescription made up
 Encouraging your child to wear spectacles
 Practical Strategies to promote using vision to its best
 Considerations for the classroom
 Registration of a Visual Impairment - What does this mean?

 Information for patients and parents to explain what happens at an eye appointment

 Investigating and managing Cerebral Visual Impairment:

• (1) Visual Skills Inventories - questions that help identify visual strengths and weaknesses related to CVI
• (2) Strategies for managing CVI-related difficulties - using the responses from the inventory patient specific strategies can be derived from these suggestions
• (3) Effective Report writing
   Communicating your findings

 Considerations for the classroom

The Useful links webpage summarises some useful resources and associations.

Dr Little recently wrote an article for special educational teachers about vision impairment for The SEN journal: What can this child see?

This work was supported by a Knowledge Transfer project by the HSC R&D office. Summary report

If you would like to see any other information added to the webpages, or have a query, please contact ja.little@ulster.ac.uk