Highly calibrated for reproducible results across all languages
Available in 19 languages and dialects
Part #4401 – English
Part #4402-S – Spanish
Part #4402-H – Hispanic
Part #4403 – Brazilian/Portuguese
Part #4404 – German
Part #4405 – Dutch
Part #4406 – Finnish
Part #4407 – Swedish
Part #4408 – Italian
Part #4409 – French
Part #4410 – Arabic
Part #4411 – Chinese (Simplified)
Part #4412 – Russian
Part #4413 – Hebrew
Part #4414 – Polish
Part #4416 – Japanese
Part #4417 – Slowenian
Part #4418 – Turkish
Part #4419 – Greek
3 New Languages Coming Soon!: Norwegian, Bengali and Tamil
Easy to use
Easy to handle
Easy to measure (by stopwatch)
Easy to calculate (normal values and formula included)
Characteristics:
Set of 10 paragraphs of text in each language for repeated measurements
Comparability between languages for international studies
Natural conditions: newspaper print, meeting the demands of everyday life
Applications:
For normal subjects
For patients with low vision (monitoring of disease, the effect of treatment and rehabilitation)
For patients with developmental dyslexia (severity of the reading disorder, the effect of training, etc.) – for juveniles and adults
Low Vision patients
Disease monitoring in AMD, especially in treatment studies
After refractive surgery
After multifocal intraocular lenses
Neurological reading disorders
Developmental dyslexia
Studies with normal subjects
User groups:
Ophthalmologists and neurologists
Optometrists and ophthalmic opticians
Orthoptists and low vision specialists
Teachers and psychologists
All reading researchers
The IReST differs from prior text charts that used single sentences by employing linguistically standardized paragraphs. They close a gap in the diagnostics of reading performance. The paragraphs are designed to resemble everyday life situations of reading continuous text, such as in books or newspapers. The level of difficulty corresponds to sixth-grade reading (10–12 years), which is comprehensible for teenagers and adults. Due to lower variance, measuring the reading time of a complete paragraph rather than a single sentence or random words is more reliable. Furthermore, it can provide some information about fluency, fatigue, and mistakes.
The first study for four languages was funded by the European Commission in the AMD Read Project. Two more languages were supported by the German Academic Exchange Office. The development of 11 more languages was supported by Alcon. An additional language supported by Allergan.
Scientific coordinator for the IReST Study Group: Prof. Dr. Susanne Trauzett el-Klosinski (Low Vision Clinic and Research Laboratory / Centre for Ophthalmology / University of Tuebingen, Germany)