KIDS TAKING COLOR BLIND TEST COMPUTER TRIAL

“Ishihara has been a good screening test, but it is 100 years old and does not leverage the benefits of today’s computer-based adaptive testing protocols,” said Andy Schmeder, Co-founder and CEO of EnChroma. Unlike traditional color vision screening tests, the EnChroma color blindness test can detect color blindness, its type and severity in under two minutes. Therefore EnChroma – inventor of the most used online color blind test in the world – created a test that offers eye care professionals, educators and parents the ability to choose to have their child, patient or student try to identify colorful shapes as well as numbers. Many young children may not yet be able to identify numbers or name colors when their vision is tested.

This enhances the separation between color channels to help those with color vision deficiency see colors more vibrantly, clearly and distinctly, helping them to overcome everyday obstacles and frustrations and access more of life’s colorful experiences.

Invented in 2010, EnChroma lenses are engineered with special optical filters to remove wavelengths of light where the red and green cones in the eye have excessive overlap. One in 12 men, and one in 200 women, are color blind. Then, the child can try EnChroma glasses to experience their benefits, which really helps parents quickly grasp the diagnosis, problem and solution.”

“The EnChroma Color Blindness Test for kids, and Kid’s Trial Kit, enable an eye care professional to quickly identify a child’s type of color vision deficiency. “Learning is heavily color-based, so it is critical to find out early if a child is color blind,” said Mark Mattison-Shupnick, Master Optician and Vice President of Business Development for EnChroma. The Kid’s Kit is only available through our network of 250 EnChroma Authorized Retailers. To solve this problem, EnChroma unveiled a new feature for its online color blindness test that enables younger children to take the test in “shape mode,” in which identifying simple geometric shapes (square, circle, triangle) replace the standard numeric symbols.ĭesigned for optometrists and opticians, the new EnChroma Kid’s Kit is a convenient trialing and fitting kit containing the EnChroma lenses most appropriate for red-green color blindness in the four most popular EnChroma frames for children. As a result, many children with color blindness go undiagnosed. Science-based, high-performance EnChroma eyewear enables the estimated 350 million people in the world with red-green color blindness to experience an expanded range of clear, vibrant and distinct color.Ĭolor vision develops early in infancy, but until a child can name colors or numbers it is challenging for a parent, teacher or eye care professional (ECP) to learn if a child is color vision deficient (CVD). – creators of the only eyewear for color blindness backed by science – today announced the EnChroma® Kid’s Kit and a new kid-friendly color blind test for more easily testing children ages 5+ for color blindness. LAS VEGAS & BERKELEY, Calif.-( BUSINESS WIRE)-At Vision Expo West, booth #19077, EnChroma, Inc.

KIDS TAKING COLOR BLIND TEST COMPUTER TRIAL

Kids taking color blind test computer