Purpose: We recently found slow visually guided reaching in strabismic children, especially in the final approach. Here, we expand on those data by reporting saccade kinematics and temporal eye-hand coordination during visually guided reaching in children treated for strabismus compared with controls.
Methods: Thirty children diagnosed with esotropia, a form of strabismus, 7 to 12 years of age and 32 age-similar control children were enrolled.
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci
December 2021
Purpose: Eye-hand coordination is essential for normal development and learning. Discordant binocular experience from childhood strabismus results in sensory and ocular motor impairments that can affect eye-hand coordination. We assessed reach kinematics during visually guided reaching in children treated for strabismus compared with controls.
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August 2020
Purpose: We evaluated motor skills in children diagnosed with strabismus and anisometropia, with or without amblyopia, and explored factors associated with impairments.
Methods: A total of 143 strabismic and anisometropic children 3 to 13 years of age (96 amblyopic, 47 nonamblyopic) and a group of age-similar 35 control children completed Manual Dexterity, Aiming and Catching, and Balance tasks from the Movement Assessment Battery for Children, Second Edition. Raw scores were converted to standardized scores, and amblyopic and nonamblyopic children were compared to controls.