MNREAD

OVERVIEW ----------- The MNREAD app is a vision test that uses full sentences. This reading-acuity test is a digital version of the printed MNREAD ACUITY CHART, and is suitable for measuring visual reading performance of people with normal and low vision. MNREAD uses simple text, suitable for testing adults and children from age eight years and up. The printed version of MNREAD is available from http://www.precision-vision.com/ The MNREAD app measures four important reading parameters: READING ACUITY - The smallest print that a person can read without making significant errors; CRITICAL PRINT SIZE - The smallest print that a person can read with maximum speed; MAXIMUM READING SPEED – A person’s reading speed when reading is not limited by print size; READING ACCESSIBILITY INDEX - A single-valued measure that represents a person’s visual access to commonly encountered printed material. The MNREAD app has a wide range of applications in testing normal and low vision. These include: Prescribing optical corrections for reading or other near tasks. Prescribing magnifiers or other reading aids in low-vision assessment. Use in research as an outcome measure or for evaluating visual reading as a function of vision status or viewing conditions. FEATURES ----------- Sentence display with 14 print sizes Black-on-white or white-on-black text Reading time recording Graphical display of results MNREAD curve fitting MNREAD parameters estimation Data recording and export Practice test AVAILABLE LANGUAGES ------------------------ English (5 test versions) Spanish (3 test versions) French (5 test versions) Italian (2 test versions) Portuguese (2 test versions) Turkish (3 test versions) Greek (3 test versions) German (3 test versions) Dutch (3 test versions) Japanese (5 test versions) APP PURCHASE ---------------- The free app contains practice sentences in all ten languages and demonstrates the features of the app. To conduct testing, please purchase the language package(s) of your choice from within the app (cost: $69.99 for each language). COPYRIGHT: Regents of the University of Minnesota ---------------------------------------------------- This app was developed at the Minnesota Laboratory for Low-Vision Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, in research funded by the National Institutes of Health. The German and Dutch charts, and French charts 3 to 5, and Spanish chart 3, were developed in collaboration with Gyroscope Therapeutics.