If you're a school health professional doing manual vision testing with eye charts and traditional devices, you will truly appreciate how the VERA school vision screening program provides a more accurate and complete screening on time and with all records and forms stored and saved for easily retrieval. There are no new clinical testing skills for you to learn. Screening tests are simple to administer and are prioritized (ordered in a clinically correct manner) and standardized (every student receives the identical screening). Prompts even alert you as to when running a test may give unreliable results.

Not only is VERA superior to other school vision screening programs, it saves you time by automatically generating letters to parents and eye doctors with all screening results inserted and with your personal information in the letter(s).

You can shorten screening time by using our patented SmartScreen® mode which automatically stops the screening at the first valid point of referral and creates your doctor's and parent's letters. SmartScreen® reduces the number of screening tests by up to 50% for many students.

And...we're not done yet with the advantages of VERA. There's just no time to be lost when a student's poor vision remains uncorrected and is likely to affect his or her learning. That's why VERA let's you instantly replace lost referral letters, lets you automatically print second notices to students and parents who have not followed up with your referral, and lets you instantly create lists of these students by age or grade to distribute to their teachers. Only VERA lets you do all of this.

There are also many subtle advantages to the VERA program, such as being able to send "pass" letters to parents of students who have passed your screening to make your contemporary health initiative even more evident to your community. You can change the visual acuity "fail point" to accommodate your school or state regulations. You can decide which tests to run or run the program in automatic mode. When you've got some extra time, kick back and instantly analyze your screening success by seeing how many or which students in any grade, age or time frame passed or failed any or all parts of your screening.

And...there's more! The routine screening qualifies students for VERA's patented Vision Skills Module, which identifies learning-related vision problems that are unrelated to the need for eyeglasses. Focusing, eye tracking and eye teaming skills common in underperforming students with normal visual acuity can affect a student's academic performance and behavior. These vision skills difficulties are frequently parts of complexes relating to poor reading ability, comprehension, ADD, Dyslexia, truancy and chronic behavioral issues. Vision skills difficulties are present in up to 20% of mainstream elementary and middle school students and up to 50% of students in costly special educational programs. VERA can identify these students with 90% accuracy, and offers methodologies to assist these students both in and out of the school setting.