NEW: Convergence Insufficiency Treatment Trial - Attention and Reading Study (CITT-ART) Participants Needed for new CITT-ART study. Frequency of convergence insufficiency among fifth and sixth graders. Convergence insufficiency (CI) is a common and distinct binocular vision disorder that affects approximately 4% of school age children and adults in the United States. Author information: (1)Southern California College of Optometry, Fullerton 92631-1699, USA. Compared to women who gave birth before the pandemic, women who gave birth in communities with a COVID-19 outbreak were more likely to experience traumatic childbirth—symptoms of strong anxiety or post-traumatic stress disorder triggered by childbirth—suggests a study … Purpose: To assess the long-term stability of improvements in symptoms and signs in 9- to 17-year-old children enrolled in the Convergence Insufficiency Treatment Trial who were asymptomatic after treatment for convergence insufficiency. Rouse MW(1), Borsting E, Hyman L, Hussein M, Cotter SA, Flynn M, Scheiman M, Gallaway M, De Land PN. The 12-week study, known as the Convergence Insufficiency Treatment Trial (CITT), found that approximately 75 percent of those who received in-office therapy by a trained therapist plus at-home treatment reported fewer and less severe symptoms related to reading and other near work. Previous CITT Study. To study the effectiveness of pencil pushups treatment (PPT) for the treatment of convergence insufficiency in a clinical situation. Background: Convergence insufficiency (CI) in parkinsonian conditions causes disabling visual symptoms during near tasks and usually manifests as double vision. However, the relationship between accommodative dysfunction and CI and other learning problems, such as attention deficit hyperactivity … Background: Accommodative dysfunction and convergence insufficiency (CI) are common pediatric vision problems that have been associated with an increase in frequency and severity of vision-specific symptoms that affect children when doing schoolwork. Since double vision is more common in patients who report cognitive symptoms, we sought to determine if symptomatic CI, as opposed to asymptomatic CI, could serve as a marker of cognitive impairment in parkinsonian disorders. Learn More. Results from the earlier Convergence Insufficiency Treatment Trial (CITT), published in Ophthalmology in 2008, showed office-based vision therapy to be the most effective treatment for improving convergence and ameliorating symptoms, and that treatment effects were long-lasting. Convergence insufficiency, or CI, is a condition in which the patient has difficulty using both eyes together as a team in a near space, as occurs during reading or writing. The study, funded by NIH’s National Eye Institute (NEI), appeared in the October 13, 2008, issue of Archives of Ophthalmology. The Convergence Insufficiency and Reading Study (CIRS) group. A multi-center clinical study, called the Convergence Insufficiency Treatment Trial, was designed to compare different treatment options for convergence insufficiency in children.