Abstract
Vision is a key for development, since it is animportant source of external reality, helping on spatial orientation. Congenital vision deficiency has been associated with developmental delay. The aim of this cross-sectional study is to describe the psychomotor and functional status of a sample of pre-school children with visual disorder. Children from a visual deficient school were invited to participate, and DENVER II and PEDI were the instruments used. Of the 14 children evaluated, only one had a complete normal DENVER II test on three of its four domains (fine motor-adaptive, language and gross motor abilities), and half had inadequate functional self-care according to PEDI. Visual deficiency interferes with child’s psychomotor development, but functional status might not be proportionally affected.
Highlights
Neuropsychomotor development is dependent on the organization of the inputs to the nervous system, to build up functional abilities, behaviour and learning
The present is a descriptive study of pre-school children from Instituto Benjamin Constant (IBC) a school from the centre for visual disorders of Rio de Janeiro
Many children had inadequate function status according Paediatric Evaluation Disability Inventory (PEDI): 9 (64.3%) on self-care, 5 (35.7%) on mobility, and only 2 (14.3%) with associated deficiency had an inadequate social performance (Table 1)
Summary
Neuropsychomotor development is dependent on the organization of the inputs to the nervous system, to build up functional abilities, behaviour and learning. Research suggests that the mapping of sensorial inputs in the central nervous system is not innate, but occurs as a result of visual stimulation during ontogeny. This appears to act as the driving force for the creation of an external reference for multisensory integration and control of action [4]. According to the World Health Organization there are 161 million people with visual deficiency, most blinds live in underdeveloped countries (excluding China and India), 3.8 million in developing countries and 1.4 million are less than 15 years of age [5]
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