VERA screening technology has been used by learning centers and public and private schools in many states and has:

• Identified students with routine vision problems which would have been missed by traditional vision screening methods
  
  
• Identified students whose learning ability was affected by eye tracking, focusing and binocular vision difficulties and who could not be tested by traditional vision screening methods
  
  
• Facilitated referral of students with learning-related vision difficulties for specialized vision care which resulted in improved school performance

The VERA program is a two-tiered screening consisting of a routine vision screening for all students and a separate "vision skills" screening for selected underachieving students.

The routine vision screening tests for visual acuity, hyperopia and binocular vision via suppression, stereopsis and eye alignment tests. Screening tests are easy to administer and are explained as the program proceeds. Reports to parents, eye doctors and/or school personnel are then automatically generated and are specially formatted to encourage compliance with the vision referral. Among VERA's numerous features are time-savings by automatically running the shortest valid screening for each student and automated follow-up of unfulfilled referrals, which encourages additional students to visit an eye doctor.

The vision skills screening identifies underachieving students with vision difficulties unrelated to the need for eyeglasses. The screening is a "visual performance" test which quantifies how easily a combination of eye tracking, focusing and binocular vision are maintained over time. These essential skills for reading and visual information processing are abnormal in a significant percentage of underachieving students and generally go undetected. No special experience is needed to run the the vision skills screening which has previously required a vision professional to be in attendance!