I-Cept-Behavioural optometry

A free assessment tool to identify auditory processing and visual processing difficulties

Time consuming with detailed assessments results.

Web based - emailing of reports

All ages

SENCO

Teachers

Assessment tool

Support students with reading difficulties

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Ease of use:

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Tech level:

Novice

I cept

Trial 6 questions-each category

100 questions- numbers  flashing  red  stars ∗  on different sides then a number input the number. Numbers on left/right/middle

Half way through choice to have a break

Visual Span, Left/right

Numbers on either side of the star    ∗   6 ∗1

Input the numbers  eg 6 1

How many circles in the green  box. 85 questions. Numbers vary between 1 and 9

Visual spatial

Numbers/letters and numbers tick or cross if the right or wrong way

Auditory  Discrimination

Which sound is the loudest

Which sound is the highest

Which sound has a gap

Which sound is the highest the first or second

Behavioural Optometry

• Convergence Insufficiency …….The visual system requires two distinct sets of abilities to perform optimally.
  1.The two eyes must send a clear, single, comfortable image to the brain
  2.The brain must be able to process the information and make sense of what is seen; this requires good visual processing skills
  In an ideal visual system, the two eyes are straight and parallel when looking into the distance, and turn in (converge) a moderate amount towards each other when seeing up close.
  Convergence insufficiency is a condition in which the two eyes can’t turn in (converge) enough when looking up close, meaning the two eyes struggle to send a single and comfortable image to the brain. Convergence insufficiency may be unrelated to being long-sighted or short-sighted, and so even though a child can see clearly, the brain is still struggling to process the image.
  Compensating for convergence insufficiency results in either (1) the muscles working harder to pull the eyes together to maintain convergence, causing strain, or (2) the brain only selectively using only one eye to focus up close; the other being ignored then relaxes and turns outwards.  Convergence insufficiency causes the accommodation (focussing) system to have a tendency to prefer to focus at distance, and struggle to focus up close.
  The combination of struggling to focus up close, and not being able to use both eyes comfortably together to see up close causes the following common symptoms;

• Eye strain (asthenopia)
• Double vision (diplopia) (though if the brain ignores an eye, this won’t be perceived)
• Headaches
• Blurred vision or ghosting of images at near
• Perception of moving print when reading
• Eye tracking and fine-motor movement difficulties
• Difficulty concentrating
• Squinting or closing one eye