The e-training is very user friendly and based on a proven method. In addition, it is technological and innovative way for eye rehabilitation. Your patiences can do eye exercises even in their homes and rehabilitate their eyes. Thus, their vision can be improved without any surgical intervention. In order to help and motivate your patients to improve their vision, we have 24/7 customer care available.
INCREASINGLY NUMBER OF PEOPLE WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS
There are an estimated 285 million people worldwide who suffer from visual impairments. With the percentage of adults above the age of 60 rising, an increased number of people affected by visual impairments should be expected.
Difficulty in reading is the most frequent complaint made by individuals with a visual impairment and is the main cause of being referred to rehabilitation services. Until now, these services were only available when visiting a clinic or hospital on a frequent basis. But, suffering from eye diseases makes patients less mobile.
SIMPLY VISIO OFFERS A SOLUTION
Simply Visio is a platform that aims to help people with visual disabilities and to assist them in solving the problems in their daily activities.
The PRL rehabilitation programme helps people with reading difficulties to develop a task-specific new trained retinal locus to enable them to read again.
In fact, it is an e-training people can do at home (with PC or tablet); it offers an alternative magnification tool to those that are traditionally used in rehabilitation. As people with low vision can have different PRLs for different visual tasks, it is important to realise a task-specific rehabilitation procedure, adapted to the needs of the person.
Once the TRL is developed, it is important to keep on reading. The software proposes reading exercises that are adapted the person’s visual acuity. This will serve both to improve the reading skills and not to lose the capacity reached. In certain cases, there is also an improvement of the far distance visual acuity.
Based on a Proven Method
The e-training of Simply Visio is based on a well known and proven method. The training can be done by everyone and in any circumstances. Also when you are treated by an eye doctor or optician. The only thing you need is a tablet or PC and a comfortable place with enough light.
The training itself consists of reading words and later little sentences. Optionally you can subscribe to newspapers and sudoko’s, all tailor made to your level of reading. The more you read again, the better!
Available in six languages
ENCOURAGING RESULTS
Researchers have shown that with magnification, reading performance (as measured by reading speed) can be improved by up to 200%.
When magnified and displayed on a larger screen this increases reading speed. A recent online survey of people with visual impairments found that nearly half of their respondents (48%) already owned and were using a tablet computer as a low-vision aid. It is found that individuals had faster reading speeds when reading from the iPad, compared to when reading from the newspaper or a printed page from an internet website. Other benefits of the iPad include apps to present text at high contrast, as single scrolling lines of text, and present text in dynamic formats,
all of which have been shown to increase reading speed and ability. Microperimetry results of a patient before and after reading rehabilitation.
PREFERRED RETINAL LOCUS (PRL)
When the fovea of the patients with macular pathologies becomes dysfunctional, a relatively healthy eccentric location of the retina that begins to function as a pseudo-fovea to fixate and for performing many other visual tasks. In the literature this new region is described as Preferred Retinal Locus (PRL).
In 2011, Crossland et al defined a PRL as follows: “One or more circumscribed
regions of functioning retina, repeatedly aligned with a visual target for a specified task, that may also be used for attentional deployment and as the oculomotor reference.”
CENTRAL SCOTOMA
A central scotoma is a loss or impairment of an island of central visual field surrounded by a relatively normal vision. It causes a reading inability. But patients can adapt an alternative strategy, using the remaining healthy, peripheral retina to read again.
The size and the shape of the central scotoma is related to the macular lesion’s size and shape.
TRAINED RETINAL LOCUS
TRL is a specific area of the retina that has been developed by the patient as a new retinal locus to read after a reading rehabilitation.
E-TRAINING IMPROVES YOUR VISION
The e-training consists of two phases. These have been designed by experts with a long history in clinical research and hands-on experience in low vision. The training programme is customised to your needs and you will be able to adjust the font size and colour.
6 Weeks E-Training
The programme starts with a self-assessment test measuring your reading ability. Based on the assessment, we design a customised training plan according to the user’s responses. Systematic, easy-to-hard exercises for 6 weeks, 5 days per week, 30 minutes per day. With simple exercises you will train the remaining healthy retina and the Preferred Retinal Locus (PRL).
Reading Exercises
Once you have completed the PRL training (phase 1), we propose you to continue to phase 2: reading exercises that are specially designed for each user.
In this section, you’ll read sentences and paragraphs. The aim is to further develop your reading ability and speed.
Significant Results
First scientific results of vision rehabilitation have been presented by Simply Visio founder Dr. Murat Erbezci at ‘the 5th International Congress on Low Vision and the Brain’ in Berlin in 2018. He revealed significant improvement in the patients reading abilities, as well as overall vision.
Based on a Proven Method
The e-training of Simply Visio is based on a well known and proven method. The training can be done by everyone and in any circumstances. Also when you are treated by an eye doctor, an optometrist or an orthoptist. The only thing you need is a tablet or PC and a comfortable place with enough light (approximately 100-200 lux).
The training itself consists of reading words and later little sentences. Optionally you can subscribe to newspapers and sudoku’s, all tailor made to your level of reading. The more you read again, the better!
Download the free app!
Start by downloading the free app. Available in both Google Play and the App Store. You can try the e-training for free!
The e-training is available in six languages: English, German, French, Russian, Turkish and Dutch.
READING SERVICES
Additionally, Simply Visio offers other reading tools in your language.
The e-reader enables patients to read books,
documents and newspapers, and play sudoku.
Once you register, the text will be displayed in
accordance with your visual needs, as determined
in past phases. You won’t have to reset the settings
before each session, but you have the
freedom to make adjustments when desired.
