Electro-Oculography in a Pilot Study of Cerebral Palsied Children

Abstract

The technique of electro-oculography has been used to record the saccadic and the pursuit eye movements of normal and cerebral palsied children under simple task conditions. Performance significantly worse by about 50 per cent among the cerebral palsied children, a correlation between performance and chronological age amongst all subjects, and unexpected discrepancies between performance on the saccadic and the pursuit tasks, have been found. These findings are relevant to the study of the oculo-motor system as one of the control systems in the body.