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Preferential Looking (PL) is now a well established laboratory method of measuring visual acuity in pre verbal chilren. We have evaluated the feasibility of its routine use in clinical practice. We present our methods and results obtained in 80 normal children and 36 children with visual disorder and discuss the problems encountered in applying this test.
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This work was supported by a grant from Bristol and Weston Health Authority and National Eye Research Centre, Bristol.
Paper presented at the Annual Congress Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom, April 1988.
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Chandna, A., Pearson, C. & Doran, R. Preferential looking in clinical practice: A year's experience. Eye 2, 488–495 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1038/eye.1988.98
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