Gaze Project

Looking, Seeing and Communicating
 

The work presented on this website represents a collaboration between University College London, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Pennsylvania State University, and University of Dundee. Our central concern is how best to describe and support ‘looking for communication’ in children with physical disabilities, who cannot rely on speech to communicate.

The development of the Eye-pointing Classification Scale was funded by the charities Action Medical Research and Great Ormond Street Hospital. To find out more about the charities and their work, please visit Action Medical Research for Children and GOSH Charity websites.

See the relevant papers:

Clarke, M.T., Sargent, J., Cooper, R., Aberbach, G., McLaughlin, L., Panesar, G., Woghiren, A., Griffiths, T., Price, K., Rose, C. and Swettenham, J. (2022) ‘Development and testing of the eye-pointing classification scale for children with cerebral palsy’, Disability and Rehabilitation, 44(8), pp. 1451–1456. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2020.1800834.

Sargent, J., Clarke, M., Price, K., Griffiths, T. and Swettenham, J. (2013) ‘Use of eye-pointing by children with cerebral palsy: what are we looking at?’, International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 48(5), pp. 477–485. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12026.

Sargent, J., Griffiths, T., Clarke, M.T., Bates, K., Macleod, K. and Swettenham, J. (2024) ‘The Functional Vision for Communication Questionnaire (FVC-Q): Exploring Parental Report of Non-Speaking Children’s Fixation Skills Using a Structured History-Taking Approach’, Developmental Neurorehabilitation, 27(1–2), pp. 27–33. Available at: .https://doi.org/10.1080/17518423.2024.2346254