Description
For over three decades video displays have been recognized as a potentially innovative and superior way to perform anti-suppression vision therapy for amblyopia. Despite this, very little progress has been made in developing programs to provide this invaluable need, and what programs do exist are very expensive, creating a financial burden on the practitioners that use them as well as their patients. Indeed, due to this cost many optometrists do not even take advantage of the software, and the patients of those that do often cannot afford to purchase it, causing many to miss out on a very powerful form of therapy. It is the goal of this project to help close this gap between need and accessibility with the development of a computer program to perform the basic anti-suppression tasks necessary for this form of therapy. This program could be freely distributed to practitioners and patients alike, providing capability for both therapy and, eventually, qualitative monitoring of improvement. The program's design makes use ofanaglyphic glasses while displaying images of appropriate colors for cancellation. The images are of a variable size to adjust the difficulty level of the therapy.
