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NCT Number: NCT00341744

Providing Access to the Visual Environment

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Vision Impairment Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Blood-Borne Infections Communicable Diseases Eye Diseases Genital Diseases HIV Infections Immune System Diseases Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes Infections Lentivirus Infections Nervous System Diseases Neurologic Manifestations Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms RNA Virus Infections Retroviridae Infections Sensation Disorders Sexually Transmitted Diseases Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral Signs and Symptoms Slow Virus Diseases Urogenital Diseases Virus Diseases Vision Disorders

Age range

3 year–21 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

About this study

Subjects are enrolled each school year based on referrals from school systems in Tennessee, ophthalmologists, and optometrists. A total of 90 new students are enrolled each year. Students are provided a comprehensive low vision rehabilitation evaluation by a low vision optometrist and prescribed optical devices to improve distance appreciation, near reading, and other tasks based on individual needs. Students are then trained to use the devices efficiently by master's level teachers of the visually impaired. The teachers travel to the students environment (school/home/work) for the training.

Variables such as ocular disease, age, visual acuity, visual improvement with optical devices, type of optical device, and reading speed are defined for each student. Providing Access to the Visual Environment also provides...

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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

Treatment and study plan

Primary outcomes

  1. Success to utilize optical devices

    Time frame: 3-4 months

    Training with external optical devices to improve visual outcome

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Lori Ann F Kehler, O.D.

CONTACT

[email protected]

615-936-2020

Saige Wilkins, CTS

CONTACT

[email protected]

615-936-1474

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Vanderbilt University

Other

Collaborators

  • Tennessee Department of Education

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2001
Primary completion
2028
Study completion
2028
First posted
Jun 21, 2006
Registry last updated
Jul 8, 2025

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