“10% of children have significant visual impairments”

Studies are still being conducted by Ian Jordan, the creator of Orthoscopics, into precisely how Orthoscopics achieves the results that it does. What we know at the moment is that for certain people with perceptual problems, specific lights or filters will alleviate or even remove their symptoms completely. It is, perhaps, easy to understand how this could affect visual problems such as words jumbling for somebody with dyslexia, maybe less so for conditions like ADHD.

It is a fact, although not entirely understood, that our senses are linked together (you may have heard of synesthesia where people can hear colours or see sounds), and what seems to be happening with people with perceptual problems is that the messages from the different senses are getting confused. With ADHD, it appears that some people suffering from it are having problems with their brain processing all the different information with which they are bombarded. Orthoscopics can help by finding the right coloured lens to ease interference in a person’s sensory perception. This can have a calming effect as extraneous stimuli are filtered out.

Likewise it can have a similar effect in helping with migraine, balance or hearing problems by removing certain light stimuli that the brain is not processing correctly or is interfering with the processing of something else.

 

Technology

There are several systems available to Opticians to assess tinted lenses such as intuitive colourimetry. These systems are based on a subtractive principle, that is they used filters to remove unwanted colour. This narrows the range of colours those systems can test for.

The advantage of the Orthoscopic system is that it uses an additive principle, combining varying levels of red, blue and green precisely matched to the colour response of the receptors in the eye to generate a full colour response for the patient.

This process, known as metamerism, allows the Orthoscopics system to simulate the colour for almost any situation – a sunny day, fluorescent lights, colour tints etc. or a any combination of light sources and filters.

In addition to testing a wide range of colours, the other advantage of using additive colour is that you can test for high saturation colours (which we find generate a better response) that the subtractive systems can’t test for.

Finally our patented VDEX tints are individually customised to ensure the correct balance of wavelenghts are allowed to reach the eye to maximise vision and minimise disruptive wavelenghts (colours which are creating noise in the visual system).

Conditions

• Dyslexia / Dyscalculia
• Developmental Coordination Disorders (Dyspraxia)
• Sensory Processing Disorders
• Attention Deficit Hyperactiviy Disorders (ADHD)
• Autistic Spectrum Disorders / Asperger’s Syndrome
• Migraine
• Propagnosia (facial / emotional recognition)
• and range of other diseases…

If you are interested in a Vision Therapy assessment (including Orthoscopic analysis) please contact the practice for a pre-evaluation questionaire. The price of the assessment is £195 and is not covered by the NHS.