“ACQUIRING THESE TESTS HAS IMPLICATIONS THAT REACH FAR BEYOND OUR BUSINESS,
AS OUR EYE MOVEMENT TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM WILL NOW ENABLE PARENTS,
PATIENTS AND PROVIDERS TO GET THE RELIABLE AND OBJECTIVE ANSWERS THEY
NEED, WHEN THEY NEED THEM, ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, AT A LOWER COST,”
“We are very excited to launch these
products,” she said in an interview
with Optical Prism magazine at the
RightEye booth at Vision Expo West
in Las Vegas.
of Neurosciences at the University of
California and the co-director of the
university's Autism Centre of Excellence.
According to RightEye, the test uses
has found that children with healthy
brains will spend more time looking
at the videos containing faces.
“This new test results in autism
identification in one in five cases and
identifies children for further testing in nearly half of cases, allowing
for the early therapy intervention
that can have a profound impact on
outcomes. The American Pediatric
Association recommends intervention before age 3, yet often children
are not diagnosed until later,”
RightEye says.
At first, Barclay said the autism test
will most likely be available in developmental psychologist offices, but her
long-term goal is to see them used by
paediatricians, eyecare specialists
Barclay, a recognized expert in the
field of eye-tracking, said she expects
the computer-based assessments will
be available to health care providers
in early 2017.
“Acquiring these tests has implications that reach far beyond our business, as our eye movement technology platform will now enable parents,
patients and providers to get the reliable and objective answers they need,
when they need them, anywhere in
the world, at a lower cost,” she said.
The company's new GeoPref Autism
Test will help doctors to more accurately identify children, between the
ages of one year and 40 months old,
that are at risk of developing autism.
It was developed by leading autism
researcher Dr. Karen Pierce, an associate professor in the Department
eye-tracking technology to compare
the amount of time children spend
looking at videos of people with the
amount of time they spend looking at
videos of geometric shapes.
Peer-reviewed research, Barclay said,
and other health care providers.
RightEye’s Parkinson’s & Other Movement Disorders Test, meanwhile,
helps to detect Parkinson’s disease in
patients of all ages.