Pettswood Eyecare are colorimetry assessment specialists. Colorimetry is a technique that uses specific colours to help with our patient’s reading difficulties, including dyslexia and visual stress.

It appears to benefit approximately 40% of dyslexic sufferers. The coloured filters appear to be very specific to each individual and there are more than 2500 individual colour combinations that can be prescribed.

The colorimetry clinic are held within the practice and appointments would consist of a full orthoptic check (making sure the right and left eye muscles are well balanced and capable of tracking words on a page) and then a Colorimetry assessment would look at helping any reading problems with the coloured filters. If it is found that this does help then the prescribed colour can be put into a pair of spectacles

If it is not so clear whether the filters would help solve the reading issues then coloured overlays would be used on a temporary basis to continue the assessment.