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Abstract Visual impairment is a very important condition in people’s lives and becomes even more important when it occurs in children who are not yet fully developed. Fortunately, it is not a condition that occurs in many children in the world, but it is present enough that health professionals can check what allows their proper development. Thus, visual rehabilitation allows them to enjoy their visual remains to the fullest. Moreover, this field includes the provision of various optical and non-optical aids. These visual aids provide children with a good quality of life within what their problem allows. In this study we monitored 140 children with vision impairment aged from 6 to 18 years with visual acuity less than 6/18 in the better eye best correction. Complete examination of the anterior and posterior segments was done. Refractive errors were measured. Before and after using low vision aids, near and far visual acuity was measured. we found that the mean age of patients was 11.94 ± 3.61 Years old; 76 (54.29%) of the children were males and 64 (45.71%) of the children were females. According to the distribution of the diagnoses Hereditary fundus dystrophies were the most prevalent diagnosis among the children, accounting for 28.57% of diagnoses, followed by albinism (20%). The rehabilitation techniques that were mostly used were Telescopic glasses (54.29%) for distant vision, electronic magnifiers (31.43%), and optical magnifiers (20.0%) for near vision. Low vision devices were shown to significantly improve both near and distant visual acuity. So, Visual Rehabilitation for school-age children with visual impairment can result in a considerable improvement in both distant and near vision. |