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NEI awards grant to NSU College of Optometry
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Nova Southeastern University announced last week that its College of Optometry will receive up to $556,532 from the National Eye Institute.
As detailed in the release, the award will fund the Convergence Insufficiency Treatment Trial —Attention and Reading Trial (CITT-ART), which will "study the relationship between the vision condition, convergence insufficiency and reading performance and attention."
“Children who have convergence insufficiency sometimes suffer from poor reading performance and attention problems,” Rachel A. Coulter, OD, MSEd, principal investigator for NSU College of Optometry’s research team, said in the release. “As the first large-scale randomized clinical trial to study this problem, outcomes could lead to new therapies for some children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and reading problems. We are very excited that the National Eye Institute has funded our grant application, and we look forward to enrolling children into the study this fall.”
The national, multicenter clinical trial will involve optometry, ophthalmology, psychiatry and education, according to the release. Along with NSU, Akron Children's Hospital, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Marshall B. Ketchum University, Salus University, the State University of New York and the University of Alabama at Birmingham will all participate.