erebral palsy, the most common cause of physical disability in children, causes
disorders of movement and posture because of a defect or lesion of the immature
brain (Bax et al., 2005). Although the clinical picture of cerebral palsy is focused
on motor dysfunction, brain damage from cerebral palsy is also responsible for other
defects. Among these defects, visual–perceptual problems are common in children
with cerebral palsy (Ito et al., 1996; Koeda & Takeshita, 1992) and can affect children’s
reading ability (Kozeis et al., 2006) and learning (Pirila et al., 2004). To make
accurate clinical judgments, plan treatment, and measure the outcome of intervention,
a test of visual perception with suffi cient reliability in children with cerebral
palsy is warranted.
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