Discover the potential of CVI screening in collaboration with Cirta Tooth. If you're concerned about visual difficulties in a child, even with normal eye test results, CVI screening can provide valuable insights. For children who screen positive, Cirta Tooth provides comprehensive CVI assessments to empower families with knowledge, understanding, and tailored strategies to overcome their visual challenges.
In my last blog, I explained that visual function assessment is important in children as certain visual dysfunctions are more common in children with CVI. Whilst visual dysfunctions should alert a practitioner to the possibility of CVI, a significant proportion of children with CVI have normal eye test results.
When a child attends for an eye examination with visual difficulties, it is important to rule out ocular causes before these difficulties can be assigned to neurological or neurodevelopmental causes. In this blog, my focus is not the routine eye examination, but rather the elements of the sight test that deserve extra attention when CVI is suspected. Additionally, I will provide an overview of dysfunctions related to higher visual processing.
‘What is the leading cause of sight impairment in children in Western countries?’
