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Professor Anna Horwood, of the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, is helping to pioneer new ways of understanding how we use our eyes together to focus on near objects. Her work with the University\u2019s Infant Vision Lab has a direct impact on the clinical treatment of patients, in particular children.<\/div>\n
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One million children in the UK are estimated to have an undetected eye condition, and most of these are due to focusing and eye alignment problems such as squint and \u201clazy eye\u201d. Although poor vision can have profound consequences on learning and development, how focusing, common eye problems, learning and development interact are very poorly understood.<\/p>\n

Professor Horwood\u2019s work on ocular accommodation and convergence, undertaken since 2006, aims to explain these complex processes. She sits on national and international committees, advisory and lobbying groups, and engages with media such as ITV, BBC radio and the local press. She has delivered keynote lectures around the world and won major international prizes, most recently being the first woman to win the Bielschowsky Lecturer International Strabismological Association (ISA) Congress, Washington award for \u201ca strabismologist who has made outstanding contributions to the science\u201d. Most importantly, practising clinicians have benefitted, thanks to a series of retinoscopy courses in the UK and Ireland that began in 2016 and are continuing this year. These \u201cresearch into practice\u201d courses are showing how Reading\u2019s research can help clinical orthoptists understand and manage their patients differently.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Shortlisted for the University Research Engagement and Impact Awards 2017<\/p>\n

First published: June 2017<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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