Functional visual assessments of children with severe neurological and physical handicaps are difficult to conduct and frequently do not provide clear guidelines for training. The addition of a learn a routine procedure, which capitalizes on the child's interest of the moment, provides information on the child's patterns of responses, ability to accommodate to variations of a stimulus, and strategies for interaction.
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