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Peer reviewedSpafford, Carol S.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1995
This study examined relationships among lens color, visual grating, visual detection task performance, and peripheral retinal brightness thresholds among four adults and four children with reading disabilities and age-matched controls. Subjects with reading disabilities displayed significantly lower contrast sensitivity when tested with sine-wave…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Etiology, Optometry
