Visual Assessments
As Southeast Asia's only accredited INPP practitioner, we offer the only visual assessment in the region that covers functional vision, perceptual skills, and sensory motor integration.
Our assessments evaluate the entire visual system to uncover the hidden challenges holding you back. Assessment results inform therapy recommendations and the development of a tailored, holistic programme.
What Does Our Functional Vision Assessment Cover?
Eye Sight
(Visual acuity)
We examine key factors specific to functional vision and its impact on learning or work, including accommodation, teaming, convergence, strabismus, lazy eye, sports vision, blurred vision, moving words, double vision, headaches, and age-related long-sightedness. Our evaluation provides a holistic view of visual health, identifying ways to manage and overcome visual challenges.
Accommodation
(Ability to Focus)
Accommodation is the eye's ability to shift focus from far to near (like looking from a whiteboard to a desk). Many children with learning difficulties (up to 96%) face challenges copying and or writing that are related to ineffective eye accommodation. In adults, accommodation generally declines by the 5th decade, becoming a considerable factor due to modern lifestyles and screen use.
Convergence
(Coordinated eye movement)
Convergence Insufficiency (CI) is particularly common in childhood causing eye strain and headaches. It is commonly unnoticed and leads to mislabeling and misdiagnosis and studies show significant links between CI and attention. Factors like screen use have seen an increase in CI emerging in adulthood.
Binocular Vision (Eye-Teaming)
(Eyes working together)
Effective eye-teaming allows the eyes to send similar, overlapping images to the brain, which fuses them into a single, clear 3D picture. Dysfunction in this process causes the brain to struggle with merging images, leading to symptoms like double vision, vertigo, and headaches, as well as difficulties with accurate and swift eye movements during activities such as reading, sports, balance, and movement. A binocular vision assessment evaluates how well the eyes team together to achieve this.
Lazy Eye (Amblyopia) & Strabismus
Lazy eye is a neurological miscommunication where the brain actively ignores the visual signal from one eye. Strabismus (an eye turn or squint) often accompanies this. Our assessment measures the depth of this suppression to develop a targeted lazy eye treatment programme designed to retrain the brain and "wake up" the affected eye.
Visual Tracking (Oculomotor Skills)
Visual tracking is the eyes' ability to smoothly and accurately follow a moving object or a line of text across a page without losing place. Poor oculomotor skills cause individuals to skip words, lose their place while reading, or substitute words. Because reading becomes physically difficult and frustrating, poor tracking is one of the primary visual issues misdiagnosed as a reading-based learning difficulty.
INPP (Institute for Neuro-Physiological Psychology)
The internationally-accredited INPP assessment identifies individuals experiencing challenges due to Neuro-Developmental Delay (NDD). We incorporate INPP movement and therapy programmes into our recommendations, establishing a detailed report, tailored training programme and regular reviews.
Farnsworth
F100 Hue Test
We conduct a comprehensive color vision assessment, to understand each individuals ability to discriminate between colours, and its potential impact in a school, home or work setting.
The Assessment Process
Following a detailed discussion and evaluation of the unique challenges you or your child may be experiencing, we will recommend an assessment that may include some or part of the required focus areas. The Developmental Visual Cognitive Assessment and Comprehensive Functional Visual Assessment include static and dynamic elements of functional vision, then expanding beyond visual function into visual perceptual skills and its relationship to the entire sensory system.
In addition to the visual tests, children also have access to INPP screening for Neuro-Motor immaturity. This important component, unique to our practice in Southeast Asia, helps us gain insight into your child's Neuro-Motor development and the relationship to the visual and sensory system.
The results of our assessments are then considered holistically and in relationship to other lifestyle and visual habits which may have the potential to impact. We then develop a comprehensive therapy programme unique to each individual and targeted to address the specific challenges you or your child are experiencing.
*Note that insurance often covers the costs of the assessment process. Patients may also be referred to an Ophthalmologist or another medical specialist as required.
