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Jenefer Sargent¹, Tom Griffiths², Michael T Clarke³

¹Neurodisability Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK.

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The Functional Vision for Communication Questionnaire (FVC-Q) effectively captures children's looking skills. This tool aids clinicians in gathering valuable information for communication assessments.

Keywords:

Assessment cerebral palsy children communication functional vision

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Area of Science:

Pediatric Communication
Clinical Assessment Tools
Visual Skills Evaluation

Background:

Assessing visual skills in children with communication difficulties is crucial.
Structured tools can improve the quality of information gathered from parents.
The Functional Vision for Communication Questionnaire (FVC-Q) aims to describe children's looking behaviors.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate the utility of the FVC-Q in obtaining descriptions of children's looking skills.
To compare parental reports from the FVC-Q with clinical assessments.
To determine if the FVC-Q aids parent-clinician communication.

Main Methods:

Parents of 32 children referred to a specialist clinic completed the FVC-Q.
The questionnaire captured descriptions of single object fixation, object-to-object shifts, and object-to-person shifts.
Parental reports were compared against clinical observations and assessments.

Main Results:

The FVC-Q yielded descriptions of fixation behaviors.
Parental reports and clinical assessments showed good agreement (72%).
Discrepancies were noted, particularly in object-to-person fixation shifts.

Conclusions:

The FVC-Q provides useful descriptions of children's fixation skills that correlate well with clinical findings.
The structured questionnaire supports dialogue between parents and clinicians.
The FVC-Q is a valuable tool for eliciting information on fixation skills in clinical settings.