Oculomotor Training and Chinese Characters Recognition in Children With Neuromuscular Disease (NCT03627962) | Clinical Trial Compass
CompletedNot Applicable
Oculomotor Training and Chinese Characters Recognition in Children With Neuromuscular Disease
Hong Kong21 participantsStarted 2016-11-01
Plain-language summary
The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of gaze-directed oculomotor training incorporated with web-based curriculum readings in Chinese to enhancing fixation, saccade and Chinese characters recognition in schoolchildren with neuromuscular disease associated with congenital oculomotor anomalies.
Who can participate
Age range6 Years – 8 Years
SexALL
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Inclusion Criteria:
* schoolchildren with neuromuscular disease associated with oculomotor anomalies,
* study in primary school of normal intelligence;
* age 6 to 8 years old;
* with native language in Chinese and Cantonese;
* because of pure oculomotor training, subjects with aphasia may also be recruited;
* students with normal to mild visual impairment (best corrected visual acuity is better than 20/60);and
* both eyes without visual loss as Tobii X3-120 seek binocular vision for calibration and assessment.
Exclusion Criteria:
* students with mild to moderate intellectual disability;
* students unable to read Chinese or unable to understand spoken Cantonese;
* student without oculomotor anomalies who are expected to have accurate fixation and saccades; or student with moderate to severe visual impairment; and
* students with ADHD, ASD or with behaviour challenging and attention problems, and/or with epileptic seizure elicited by computer flickering light.