Learning objectives
<br />Main goals:<br />To learn further diseases as cause of low vision in adult and pediatric patients. <br />To know the legal benefits of people with different levels of low vision, according to the italian law.<br />Low vision rehabilitation strategies in children aged 0-4 and 4-6 and physiology of reading and writing<br />Psychological aspects of low vision patients<br />Clinical and functional evaluation of people with low vision: a practical and interactive approach with patients <br /> What are the new video-based and electronic low vision aids and how they can be used<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
Prerequisites
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Course unit content
<br /> PROGRAM Less common retinal diseases as cause of low vision:<br />- Coats disease, Leber disease ,idiopatic parafoveal teleangectasias, Von Recklinghausen neurofibromatosis, Charles Bonnet syndrome, Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome,Usher syndrome, Stargardt disease ,Best vitelliform maculopathy, Leber amaurosis, retinoblastoma.<br />- Low vision and the law: definitions of low vision,l egal blindness, functional blindness and related legal benefits according to the italian law.<br />- NCS plasticity <br />- Low vision in pediatric patients: low vision rehabilitation in children aged 0-4 and aged 4-6.<br />- phisiology of reading and writing <br />- psychological approch to low vision patients<br />- new video-based and electronic low vision aids<br />- clinical and functional evaluation of people with low vision<br />
Full programme
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Bibliography
<br />- Colembrander, D. C. Fistcher: 'Oftalmologia clinica nel Nord America - Ipovisione e riabilitazione visiva', Verducu Editore;<br />- Fondazione R. Hollman 'Sight First: l'intervento precoce nei bambini con deficit visivo ', Lions Club Verbania;<br />-P. B. Freeman, Randal T. Jose: 'The art and practice of low vision',Buttersworth-Hainemann a division of Reed Publishing (USA) Inc.;<br />- Organ Backman, Krister Inde: 'Riabilitazione visiva del paziente ipovedente', Fabiano Editore;<br />- Luigi Luparelli: 'Ipovisione: i fondamenti e la pratica', Medical Books.<br />- Duane's Ophthalmology, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2002
Teaching methods
Theorical and practical-interactive lessons<br />Oral examination<br />
Assessment methods and criteria
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Other information
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