Functional vision promotes quality of life and socio-emotional functioning in visually impaired children and adolescents

• Guido Catalano ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Guido Catalano, Federica Morelli

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Brain and Behavioural Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, Developmental Neuro-Ophthalmology Unit, IRCCS Mondino Foundation, Pavia, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0009-0003-3431-1018

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• Federica Morelli ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Guido Catalano, Federica Morelli

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Brain and Behavioural Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, Developmental Neuro-Ophthalmology Unit, IRCCS Mondino Foundation, Pavia, Italy, Department of Psychiatry, Autism Spectrum Disorders and Related Conditions Service, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Serena Grumi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

  * E-mail: serena.grumi@mondino.it

  Affiliation Developmental Psychobiology Lab, IRCCS Mondino Foundation, Pavia, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4353-3803

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• Daria Paini,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Developmental Neuro-Ophthalmology Unit, IRCCS Mondino Foundation, Pavia, Italy

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• Francesco Decortes,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

  Affiliation Developmental Neuro-Ophthalmology Unit, IRCCS Mondino Foundation, Pavia, Italy

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• Ilaria Scognamillo,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Brain and Behavioural Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

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• Maria Eleonora Reffo,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Robert Hollman Foundation “Consultation and Support for the Development of Visually Impaired Children”, Padova, Italy

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• Roberta Zumiani,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Abilnova Cooperativa Sociale, Trento, Italy

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• Sandra Strazzer,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Scientific Institute, IRCCS E. Medea, Centro Regionale per l’ipovisione in Età Evolutiva, Bosisio Parini, Lecco, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8414-6565

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• Elena Cocchi,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Fondazione David Chiossone per Ciechi ed ipovedenti ONLUS, Genova, Italy

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• Livio Provenzi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Brain and Behavioural Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, Developmental Psychobiology Lab, IRCCS Mondino Foundation, Pavia, Italy

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• Sabrina Signorini,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Developmental Neuro-Ophthalmology Unit, IRCCS Mondino Foundation, Pavia, Italy

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• The VIDA Group

  ¶VIDA Group: Membership of the VIDA Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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