ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: To determine the effect of near spectacle correction on visual perception and perceptional organization skills in children with Down Syndrome, full ophthalmologic examination including dynamic retinoscopy were performed on 11 children with Down Syndrome and the children were grouped according to their accommodation capacity. To determine the visual perception and perceptional organisation skills, Bender Gestalt Motor Perception Test was carried out on two occasions two weeks apart with distant refractive correction on first visit and with 3.0 add on the second visit. When the scores of the first and second performances in the BGMPT are compared within each group; in the children with defective accommodation, the total BGMPT score means in the second performances are found to be significantly lower than the first test score means and in children without defective accommodation, the difference between the mean scores of the first and second performances were found to be statistically insignificant.
