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Routine pediatric exams should include visual perceptual screening

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Preschool-age children who were prematurely born should have visual perceptual screening as part of routine evaluations, according to a study.

Deborah Winders Davis, DNS, RNC, and colleagues at the University of Louisville, Ky., studied 92 very low birth weight children who were 4 or 5 years old. At the time of birth, all participants were less than 1,500 g. The researchers gave each child the Test of Visual-Perceptual Skills (non-motor)-Revised.

The children showed intelligent quotient scores in the average range, but the majority (63% to 78.3%) performed below age level on all seven subscales of a normed assessment of visual perceptual skills.

The study is published in the November/December issue of Journal of Pediatric Health Care.