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Providing Access to the Visual Environment

Vanderbilt University · with Tennessee Department of Education · NCT00341744

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Key facts

Compensation
Not posted. Ask the study team before screening.
Who can join
Ages 3–21 · All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Study type
Observational
Target enrollment
795
US sites recruiting
1
Study start
July 2001
Record last updated
July 31, 2026

Status re-checked against ClinicalTrials.gov within the last 12 hours.

What the study is about

Providing Access to the Visual Environment is a pediatric low vision grant which has the ability to provide comprehensive, interdisciplinary low vision rehabilitation services to every child in Tennessee with a vision impairment. Children, ages 3-21, with best-corrected vision of 20/50 or worse in the better seeing eye are prescribed optical devices to improve their visual functioning and trained to use the devices.

Conditions: Vision Impairment

Eligibility criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

Children age 3 to 21 years of age Enrollment in a school in Tennessee (private or public)

  • Children that are eligible for services due to visual impairment Low vision

Exclusion Criteria

  • Children who do not have the potential to become readers or use their vision for reading

Recruiting US locations

  • Saige Wilkins

    Nashville, TN 37232

    Site contact: Saige A Wilkins, CTS · 16159361474 · saige.wilkins@vumc.org

Study contacts (from the official record)

  • Lori Ann F Kehler, O.D. · 615-936-2020 · lori.ann.kehler@Vanderbilt.Edu
  • Saige Wilkins, CTS · 615-936-1474 · saige.wilkins@vumc.org
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