Early intervention in the child with low vision
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https://doi.org/10.34024/rnc.2001.v9.8928Keywords:
Low vision, early intervention, occupational therapyAbstract
The present work discusses the development of vision considering the environmental and neurological maturation factors. It contemplates the low vision children’s development characteristcs and the areas of the development that can be commited for visual alterations. It presents an approach of the occupational therapy performance in early intervention, relating the fundamental presuppositions for intervention with those children.
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