Patent ID: 7347694

Claim:
A system for screening aspects of vision associated with learning in individuals comprising: a processing system to evaluate aspects of user vision associated with learning, said processing system including: a screening module to determine vision related causes of learning difficulties of a user by presenting a plurality of tests to said user on a display and to conduct and process said tests, wherein each test screens a corresponding aspect of user vision associated with learning, and wherein said screening module includes: an eye movement module to present an eye movement test to said user on said display and to conduct and process said eye movement test to screen user eye movement during reading; a visual image module to present a visual image test to said user on said display and to conduct and process said visual image test to screen a user ability to construct a mental pictorial image by viewing; a visual memory module to present a visual memory test to said user on said display and to conduct and process said visual memory test to screen a user ability to visually recall mental pictorial images; a perspective module to present a perspective test to said user on said display and to conduct and process said perspective test to screen a user ability to visually manipulate mental pictorial images viewed from various perspectives; and a transposition module to present a transposition test to said user on said display and to conduct and process said transposition test to screen a user ability to mentally translate or rotate pictorial images; and an evaluation module to evaluate user performance of said tests relative to corresponding norms for those tests associated with user ages to determine a status of said aspects of user vision as a cause of said learning difficulties, wherein said evaluation module includes: a status module to determine results of each said test based on said user performance, wherein said user performance of each said test is compared to a corresponding norm for that test associated with the age of said user to determine said status of said corresponding vision aspect associated with each test; and a designation module to produce an overall designation for said screening relating to an overall status of user vision aspects by weighting said results of each said test and combining said weighted results, wherein said overall designation for said screening includes one of pass and fail and said results of said perspective and transposition tests are given greater weight relative to remaining ones of said tests to produce said overall designation.