Cerebral Palsy, Cortical Visual Impairment
Conditions
Brief summary
This study will investigate the effect of enhanced visual and cross-modal environments upon the visual attentiveness of multiply handicapped children diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy (CP) and Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI). Research Hypothesis 1. Adapted visual environments which present controlled auditory, tactile, proprioceptive or contrasting visual background stimulation will enhance the visual attentiveness to a given visual stimulus of children diagnosed with CP and CVI. 2. Systematic, repetitive, visual stimulation over time, improves the visual attentiveness and/or visual-motor responses of CP-CVI children. 3. The analysis of additional behavioral responses to visual stimuli is a critical component in evaluating the perceptual development of visual attention in CP-CVI children. Use of Noldus: The Observer, an advanced objective computerized observation program, will enable precise detection of the neurobehavioral responses of the participants. Both overt and covert responses will be observed, analyzed and correlated to identify the level of attention of each participant.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALcross-modal sensory stimulation
comparison of participant response to unimodal visual stimulation and to bimodal sensory stimulation
Sponsors
Sheba Medical Center
Study design
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
2 Years to 21 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* two to twelve years of age * diagnosis of: CP, mental retardation (MR) and CVI (Control group participants without visual disability)
Exclusion criteria
* N/A
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Eye Movements | within the testing session |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Other behavioural responses | within the testing session |
Countries
Israel
Outcome results
None listed