Preliminary Review of 325 Consecutive Cases of Learning Difficulty

Patricia Dunlop, D.B.O. (London)

Children with learning difficulties are sent for eye investigation when authorities suspect a visual impairment of some kind – motor, sensory or perceptual, or when a child who is not performing for some reason, such as mental retardation, brain damage or aphasia may need to be examined to see whether there is also a visual problem, which, if treated, might make the general outlook brighter.