Patent ID: 6398729
Filing Date: 2002-06-04
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
In the known test to identify a reading dysfunction administered in a school environment to a classroom-filled audience of children previously instructed to provide a raised hand signal indicative of a blurred condition of a visual display observed en masse by said audience, the improvement consisting of a method contributing to a reported signal more accurately being correlated to a child's perception of the said blurred condition of the said display comprising the steps of:(1) using a known electronic network electronically connected to operate as an internet transmitting images from at least one broadcasting site to not less than 150 sites of reception of said images; (2) administering said known test using an observable display presented on a screen of an internet module located at each said 150 sites of reception; (3) locating each said internet module in each of said 150 sites of reception in a selected private environment; (4) reducing to one the child to be tested in each said private environment seated in facing relation to said internet module screen and simultaneously broadcasting images thereto so as to correspondingly simultaneously cause said administration of said test and (5) instructing each said child to use a raised hand signal when perceiving said observed display blurred; whereby when said child reports by said raised hand signal as instructed it is known to be uninfluenced by any reported signal of another child to thereby contribute to the accuracy of the test results of said at least 150 children simultaneously tested.