Table 6.

Results for treatment of visual perceptual defects

Study	Study design	Aim/Objective	Number of participants	Type of population	Intervention	Time/ duration of intervention
Rowe et al. (2011b)	Prospective observational cohort	Evaluate prevalence of perceptual deficits post stroke	n = 178	Stroke	Advice, compensatory strategies, scanning strategies, general awareness	Average = 22 days post stroke (range = 0–2,543 days) duration of individual treatments not specified
Woodhead et al. (2013)	Prospective observational study – repeated measures	Test the efficacy of audio‐visual reading training	n = 9	Mixed Infarct n = 7 Hemorrhage n = 1 TBI n = 1 Patients had pure alexia	Audio‐visual reading training. Cross modal word recognition training	Duration of training not stated, follow‐up at 2 and 4 weeks post training