Evaluation of the Efficacy of Optometric Rehabilitation on Visual Cognitive Deficits in Children

University Hospital, Strasbourg, France

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Visual Cognitive Deficits

Treatments: Other: Optometric therapy during 6 months; Other: Optometric therapy during 12 months

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02061501

5542

Details and patient eligibility

About

Visual cognitive deficits in children are frequent, with an impact on working and daily activities. Optometric therapy may improve those functions, however few studies have been performed.

We aim to evaluate the efficacy of such therapy by a comparative study between two groups of children aged between 5 and 12 after 6 months of rehabilitation.

Enrollment: 70 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 12 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• visual cognitive deficits
• normal intelligence

Exclusion criteria

• cerebral palsy
• mental deficiency
• visual acuity deficit

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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70 participants in 2 patient groups

Speech therapy

Active Comparator group

Description:

Speech therapy (30 min per week) alone for the 6 first months. Then speech therapy (30 min per week) and optometric therapy (30 min per week) for the 6 last months.

Treatment:

Other: Optometric therapy during 6 months

Speech therapy and optometric therapy

Experimental group

Description:

Speech therapy (30 min per week) and optometric therapy (30 min per week) for 12 months.

Treatment:

Other: Optometric therapy during 12 months