Visual perceptual skills in school children aged 7 to 12 years with refractive amblyopia

Abstract

Visual perception is a skill that involves a series of related sub-skills, which interact with each other in order to efficiently analyze, integrate, and synthesize visual information. <em><strong>General Objective:</strong></em> To determine the status of visual perceptual skills in school children aged 7 to 12 years with refractive amblyopia, residents of Bogotá. <em><strong>Materials and methods:</strong></em> A descriptive observational study was developed the sample was obtained by visual screening of the students of the selected age group—complete examination, including cycloplegia, of the students with possible positive amblyopia in screening—and by applying TVPS-3 to the children with confirmed diagnosis of amblyopia. <em><strong>Results:</strong></em> The visual perceptual skills of visual closure, figure-ground, form constancy, and spatial relationships were more frequently below normal values. <em><strong>Conclusions:</strong></em> The study found that some of the visual perceptual skills in the amblyopic patients of the sample were below the values considered normal.