Improving visual skills: II—Remote assessment via Internet

Powers, Maureen K.; Grisham, J D; Wurm, Janice K.; Wurm, William C.

doi:10.1016/j.optm.2008.01.025

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“…Accommodation.-Facility of ocular accommodation was evaluated with Rock Lens Test with ± 2.00 diopter lenses. Improvements in facility of ocular accommodation refer to the flexibility of the visual system to see the objects at different distances clearly (Powers, Grisham, Wurm, & Wurm, 2009). Close distance tables were placed at a distance of 40 cm from the referee, who was asked to examine 20/25 (snalen scale) letters in a room with sufficient light (Griffin, 1988).…”

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Visual Skills Involved in Decision Making by Expert Referees

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Previous studies have compared visual skills of expert and novice athletes; referees' performance has not been addressed. Visual skills of two groups of expert referees, successful and unsuccessful in decision making, were compared. Using video clips of soccer matches to assess decision-making success of 41 national and international referees from 31 to 42 years of age, 10 top referees were selected as the Successful group and 10 as the Unsuccessful group. Visual tests included visual memory, visual reaction time, peripheral vision, recognition speed, saccadic eye movement, and facility of accommodation. The Successful group had better visual skills than the Unsuccessful group. Such visual skills enhance soccer referees' performance and may be recommended for young referees.

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“…The purpose of the study Powers [10,18,21,22] conducted in the Los Angeles schools was to see whether reading fluency scores would improve with systematic intervention by a visual skills training procedure in class. Thus, the data set also contained multiple measurements of all variables repeated several times during the intervention.…”

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“…When children complain of blurred images even after obtaining corrective lenses, the kind of binocular weakness as demonstrated here can be a cause. Powers and colleagues have shown, using quantitative optometric measures of vergence, accommodation (focusing with the two eyes together), and saccadic tracking [10,21], that poor visual skills are associated with poor reading outcomes as measured in school-administered tests [22].…”

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Functional Binocular Vision: Toward a Person-Centered Metric

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Fisher

2022

Springer Series in Measurement Science and Technology

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A research program investigating correctable issues in Functional Binocular Vision (FBV) related optometric variables to responses from a symptom survey and reading test results. The study was mounted with no explicit attention to measurement modeling. Data from this research program were retrospectively analyzed with the aims of evaluating the potential for learning from the existing observations, and for improving the study design in future iterations. Results suggest that the physical and psychological measurements of vision combine into a model of FBV that could be standardized and deployed for use in diagnosing significant numbers of untreated vision problems negatively impacting learning outcomes.

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Telerehabilitation for people with low vision

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Wykstra

Yoshinaga

et al. 2015

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

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Background Low vision affects over 300 million people worldwide and can compromise both activities of daily living and quality of life. Rehabilitative training and vision assistive equipment (VAE) may help, but some visually impaired people have limited resources to attend in-person visits at rehabilitation clinics. These people may be able to overcome barriers to care through remote, Internet-based consultation (i.e., telerehabilitation). Objectives To compare the effects of telerehabilitation with face-to-face (e.g., in-office or inpatient) vision rehabilitation services for improving vision-related quality of life and reading speed in people with visual function loss due to any ocular condition. Secondary objectives are to evaluate compliance with scheduled rehabilitation sessions, abandonment rates for visual assistive equipment devices, and patient satisfaction ratings. Search methods We searched CENTRAL (which contains the Cochrane Eyes and Vision Group Trials Register) (2015 Issue 5), Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid MEDLINE In-Process and Other Non-Indexed Citations, Ovid MEDLINE Daily, Ovid OLDMEDLINE (January 1980 to June 2015), EMBASE (January 1980 to June 2015), PubMed (1980 to June 2015), ClinicalTrials.gov (www.clinicaltrials.gov) and the World Health Organization (WHO) International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) (www.who.int/ictrp/search/en). We did not use any language restriction or study design filter in the electronic searches; however, we restricted the searches from 1980 onwards because the Internet was not introduced to the public until 1982. We last searched the electronic databases on 15 June 2015. Selection criteria We planned to include randomized controlled trials (RCTs) or controlled clinical trials (CCTs) in which participants were diagnosed with low vision and were undergoing low vision rehabilitation using an Internet, web-based technology compared with an approach based on in-person consultations. Data collection and analysis Two authors independently screened titles and abstracts, and then full-text articles against the eligibility criteria. We planned to have two authors independently abstract data from included studies. We resolved discrepancies by discussion. Main results We did not find any study that met the inclusion criteria for this review and, hence, we did not conduct a quantitative analysis. As a part of the background, we discussed review articles on telemedicine for facilitating communication with elderly individuals or for providing remote ophthalmological care. Authors’ conclusions We did not find any evidence on whether the use of telerehabilitation is feasible or a potentially viable means to remotely deliver rehabilitation services to individuals with low vision. Given the disease burden and the growing interest in telemedicine, there is a need for future pilot studies and subsequent clinical trials to explore the potential for telerehabilitation as a platform for providing services to people with low vision.

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Improving visual skills: II—Remote assessment via Internet

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References 11 publications

Visual Skills Involved in Decision Making by Expert Referees

Visual Skills Involved in Decision Making by Expert Referees

Functional Binocular Vision: Toward a Person-Centered Metric

Telerehabilitation for people with low vision

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