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Reading Fluency and Accommodative Lag

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The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Status

Completed

Conditions

Ocular Accommodation

Treatments

Other: Autorefractor, standard clinical instrument

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other
NIH

Identifiers

NCT00383175
EY008893 (Other Grant/Funding Number)
F060328003

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether special reading glasses improve children's ability to learn to read.

Full description

Many children are believed to under accommodate (have a lag of accommodation) when looking at near targets. If this occurs, the retinal image is out of focus. Children who have a lag of accommodation may have difficulty in focusing their eyes at near for long periods of time. This difficulty could reduce their ability to read fluently. Children with above average lags of accommodation will be randomly assigned to a group which receives special reading glasses or a group which does not. The groups will be assessed using a standard test for reading fluency.

Enrollment

72 patients

Sex

All

Ages

5 to 9 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Children in grades 1, 2 and 3 who consent and assent to participate

Exclusion criteria

  • Children in the special education program
  • Children who are unwilling to have their eyes dilated or be tested
  • Children who are unwilling to wear the glasses

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Factorial Assignment

Masking

Double Blind

Trial contacts and locations

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