Orthoscopics
system Clinical Trial
The Orthoscopics
system has been the subject of a clinical trial in Cambridge.
It assessed a range of patients in a number of areas. The trail
was conducted by a physiologist with tests conducted by an optometrist,
psychologist, optician, statistician and a neurologist and advice
from statistician, a physicist and a nutritionalist. Tests included
optometric analysis, psychometric tests, sequencing, EEG, balance
and phonological awareness.
Clinical
Trial - Cambridge 2002
From September
2002 until December 2002 a clinical trial was conducted to determine
the incidence of visual perceptual difficulties in children with
reading problems, our ability to quantify these visual anomalies
and the degree of improvement possible.
Self-selecting
group
The children
used in the trials were self selected. An advertisement in the
local newspaper asked for children aged between 8 and 12 who were
having reading difficulties at school. The first 50 who applied
were accepted on to the trial.
An eye examination
was conducted before the trial and the parents completed a questionnaire
about the child's medical history. Each child was asked detailed
questions on symptoms and about 20% of the children did NOT report
significant visual perceptual difficulties. However, the remaining
80% complained of significant visual processing difficulties.
See
Summary of the results of the trial
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