Summary
Project Summary/Abstract: It is known that individuals with Down syndrome (DS) have reduced visual acuity which may result from high levels of refractive error (sphere and cylinder) and elevated levels of higher-order aberrations that are present from childhood. Targeting optical aberrations through spectacle correction with refractions determined objectively from measures of wavefront aberrations is part of our long-term goal to provide new treatment strategies to improve vision in this group. The central hypothesis is that measures of visual and retinal image quality (metrics) can be used to