Training Reading Skills in Central Field Loss Patients: Impact of Clinical Advances and New Technologies to Improve Reading Ability

  1. Coco Martin
  2. Herrera Medina, J
  3. Oliveros López, J.
  4. Platero Alvarado
  5. Leal Vega
Book:
Visual Impairment and Blindness - What We Know and What We Have to Know

Year of publication: 2020

Type: Book chapter

DOI: 10.5772/INTECHOPEN.88943 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

The primary goal of patients with central field loss attending to visual rehabilitation (VR) offices is to get adapted to daily life activities in near vision, mainly looking for recovering their ability to read again. The disparity in the functionality of these patients, due to the new advances in medical treatment and the increasing number of new apps and technological devices in the market, implies a heterogeneity in the reading training programs to be applied, and consequently a variability in the results obtained. Currently, with the increasing access to information and communication technologies and social networks, the opportunities for improving their access to information and communication is taken an important role. For this reason, the basis of ad-hoc evidence-based reading training programs is needed to standardized the clinical practice in reading rehabilitation for visual impaired and blind patients. This chapter will go in depth into these topics offering an exhaustive state of the art of reading rehabilitation for central field loss patients that will be useful for clinicians dedicated to the rehabilitation of visual impaired and blind people.

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