Impact of Refractive Error Correction on Mental and Visual Development in Children with Global Developmental Delay

Abstract

ABSTRACT newlineIntroduction: Primary cause of GDD is irreversible, but secondary factors like visual newlinedefects, auditory factors etc., are amenable to treatment, and benefit from intervention newline(Bader 1980). According to a study by Salt (2014), of the various ocular newlinemanifestations, refractive error was the most common (20-60%). There is a dearth of newlinestudies on the quantification of DQ improvement, on behavioral improvement, due to newlinevisual improvement. Hence, the study was attempted. newlineObjectives: To study the impact of early Refractive Errors correction, on Vision, newlineDevelopmental Quotient (DQ) and their determinants in GDD children of age 1 to 5 newlineyears. newline