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How the Vision of Children with Autism Differs
Research has shown that the visual symptoms experienced by children with ASDs are more severe and complex than those found in children who develop normally. Some of the studies comparing visual problems in groups diagnosed with ASDs with normally developing patients show a general trend of more difficulty with the following:
Visual acuity (eyesight)
Stereoacuity (depth perception)
Eye alignment (crossed or lazy eyes, eye coordination problems)
Eye movement control (tracking, quick eye jumps, convergence issues).
In general, children with autism are plagued by neural noise in the visual signals transmitted to the brain. This noise makes it more difficult to integrate their vision with other sensory systems such as receptive and expressive language
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Children with poor vision or a hearing loss are more likely to be diagnosed with autism than are those in the general population, reports a large epidemiological study published in October1.
The study, published in Disability and Health Journal, looked at more than 230,000 children in Atlanta who reached the age of 8 years between 2000 and 2008.
It found that 6 percent of children with hearing problems and 7 percent of those with visual impairments have autism, compared with 1 percent of the general population.
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