Orthoscopics

Orthoscopics is an assessment and treatment system which the retinal cone cell pathways are separated into their component streams . Assessment results are given in international standard CIE XY form. Optimum vision is tested using a number of optometric devices and its effect on visual information processing, secondary sensory integration and neurological responses are determined. The instrumentation was part funded by the UK government. New lenses had to be designed as no optometric lenses in the world came close to fulfilling the specification required. The instruments emulate any lens / light / filter combination accurately and may be used to determine many conditions from myopic shift to jump convergence problems. Many optometric conditions can be addressed using the Orthoscopics system as well as neurological and cognitive processing difficulties. The system was developed by Ian Jordan, a British optician who has promoted his program widely as a way of treating a condition he has labeled "visual dyslexia". Jordan's theories and work is significantly different from Helen Irlen but he readily acknowledges her influence with some of her work. The Orthoscopics system is designed for the optical and medical professions and assumes and expects a high degree of clinical expertise.

Jordan considers "visual dyslexia" to be as much a physical condition as myopia and hyperopia [http://www.visualdyslexia.com] . and it can be measured and ttreatments can be determined empirically. Ian Jordan has a specialist multisensory optometric practice in Ayr Scotland. [http://www.jordanseyes.com]

There is some dispute about the term visual dyslexia - Ian Jordan uses it the way the vast majority of the public use it - to describe difficulties which are caused by unstable visual processing

See also

* Dyslexia
* Behavioral optometry
* Vision therapy