TAKING CARE OF LOW-VISION CHILDREN

Presentation of the Lausanne school for blind and visually impaired ch ildren. 38 children were admitted in the school in 1996-1997. 16 have a visual acuity of less than 3/60. Ocular malformations of various ori gins are the main reason of the handicap, followed by visual lesions o f central origin. Comparing the study with those of 1992 and 1993, it seems that the number of retrolental fibroplasia and cataracts (operat ed or not) is decreasing. The authors present the educational care of these children. At present, the goal is to maintain the children in th eir own family. Most of them are day pupils and the transportation org anisation is therefore very important. In special cases, it is possibl e to leave the children in a non-specialized school, provided the chil dren receive a good educational support by one of our specialized low- vision teachers.