Reading & Learning Difficulties
VISION ASSESSEMENT OF THOSE WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIESA number of children and adults with learning difficulties have a visual problem which contributes to their learning difficulty. Very often these problems can be corrected with appropriate spectacles and visual training.
We use the Behavioral Optometric approach to examining and prescribing. We also screen for Meares-Irlen Syndrome and prescribe Cerium Tinted Lenses for this condition. We are the first New Zealand Optometrists to use Cerium Colour Lens Technology and Diagnostic Instrumentation.
Clinical research trials by the British Medical Research Council have shown that people who experience visual distortion when looking at a page of print have much clearer vision when wearing a coloured lens that has been prescribed following assessment on the Intuitive Colorimeter.