Children with visual impairments (CWVI) generally perform poorer in gross motor skills when compared with their sighted peers. This study examined the influence of age, sex, and severity of visual impairment upon locomotor and object control skills in CWVI. Participants included 100 CWVI from across the United States who completed the Test of Gross Motor Development II (TGMD-II). The TGMD-II co...

INTRODUCTION Persistent bacterial bronchitis (PBB) is a leading cause of chronic wet cough in young children. This study aimed to characterise the respiratory bacterial microbiota of healthy children and to assess the impact of the changes associated with the development of PBB. Blind, protected brushings were obtained from 20 healthy controls and 24 children with PBB, with an additional direct...

Our Understanding of Childhood Blindness at the Adoption of VISION 2020 in 1999 Magnitude of Childhood Blindness The global initiative—VISION 2020: The Right to Sight—launched in 1999, targeted blindness in children as one of the five priority areas of disease control [1]. Selecting childhood blindness was based on the fact that blindness in childhood can lead to decades of life spent blind and...

INTRODUCTION To determine the prevalence and identify potentially curable causes of blindness. MATERIAL AND METHODS We analyzed causes of blindness in 808 blind persons, aged from O to 75 years. We classified our findings in 13 categories. RESULTS The least number of blind persons was discovered in children aged from 0 to 15 years (2.4%), as well as in teenagers (3.4%). The number of blind ...