It is very important that an eye care specialist be consulted regularly for possible treatment, including glasses, eye patching, surgery, etc. An acuity loss typically makes things appear blurry. Glasses are prescribed to help improve refractive errors. Those of us who have an acuity loss and wear glasses know how much information we miss from our environment when we don't have our glasses on. Glasses are very important for a child who has CP and acuity loss.
Glasses can greatly improve incidental learning or learning that takes place by observation.
The field of vision is everything you can see when you look straight ahead which is normally about 180 degrees in all directions. This means that the child has problems making sense of visual information. Cortical visual impairment or CVI causes processing problems. CVI can cause the vision to fluctuate from day to day and minute to minute. It can also impact depth perception and cause a field loss.