Trial Parameters
Condition Vision Impairment
Sponsor Vanderbilt University
Study Type OBSERVATIONAL
Phase N/A
Enrollment 795
Sex ALL
Min Age 3 Years
Max Age 21 Years
Start Date 2001-07
Completion 2028-12
Brief Summary
Providing Access to the Visual Environment is a pediatric low vision grant which has the ability to provide comprehensive, interdisciplinary low vision rehabilitation services to every child in Tennessee with a vision impairment. Children, ages 3-21, with best-corrected vision of 20/50 or worse in the better seeing eye are prescribed optical devices to improve their visual functioning and trained to use the devices.
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria: Children age 3 to 21 years of age Enrollment in a school in Tennessee (private or public) \- Children that are eligible for services due to visual impairment Low vision Exclusion Criteria: * Children who do not have the potential to become readers or use their vision for reading