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Visual problems in people with severe mental handicap
1Departmento de Optica y Optometria, Escuela Universitaria de Optica de Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain.
Journal of Intellectual Disability Research : JIDR
|October 1, 1993
Abstract:
The incidence of visual problems in people with mental handicaps is very high. Nine severely mentally handicapped patients were studied. Several objective and subjective optometric tests were performed. The results showed the presence of different kinds of visual problems that were compensated for by optical methods. The subjects showed a general change in their behaviour. It is essential to give optometric care to such people.