Welcome to all new connections 2019

As, the burden of eye-health is fast becoming a Global issue and has been declared a Pandemic by the WHO with 50% more children being diagnosed with myopic and/or asthenopic disease, scaled by the WHO in their International Classification of Diseases, exacerbated by age diverse over-exposure to sub-optimal display screen ergonomics, the impact on education, life-long learning and presenteeism in the workplace will have to be addressed as, ignoring it or sustaining a position of denial is no longer an expedient option.

https://icd10coded.com/cm/H53/

Regardless of the weight of vision studies or research papers published, let alone earlier failed attempts to prevent or mitigate Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) or Screen Fatigue, like Dyslexia as a condition, recognition that asthenopia in teenagers and adults, who suffer the debilitating affects of binocular 3D deficits, have been seen to be 'incurable' in grown-up's, other than by cosmetic surgery to re-align the eyes, the visual repetitive stress injuries, acquired primarily by 58% of DSE operators in the workplace, have been to some degree preventable and mitigation has been available since the early 1990's.

However, whilst focused, excuse the pun, on "refractive deficits", due to close-up or near work, the other functional aspects of vision were, sort of, ignored either through expediency or just didn't occur to those ophthalmologists or other professionals involved the review.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12859239

Nevertheless, the UK HSE did complete a medical review published in 2007 the "Better Display Screen RR 561" that concluded that the 1993 UK DSE Regulations had little or no effect on the reporting of eye-strain, visual RSI's (asthenopia) or other WRULD's or MSD's.

https://www.hse.gov.uk/research/rrpdf/rr561.pdf

In the meantime, as a result of brain injury research, treatment and rehabilitation, it has been acknowledged that human beings are capable of adaptation and exhibit a great deal more mental and physiological "plasticity" than many believed possible, including the majority of opticians who were taught that post 8 or 9 years old there was nothing that could be done to treat or restore stable binocular vision in adults other than cosmetic surgery !

However, since the turn of the century many researchers have been on the track of the mechanisms that support reversal of stress related monocular adaptations in adulthood encouraged by the successful practical use of supportive eye-exercises usually associated with childhood treatment of eye misalignment commonly known as lazy-eye or presbyopia in adults.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCCtphdXhq8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwGzXtLRcCc

So, although l/we didn't know how it worked at the time, just that the relatively simple methodology of enabling "access to digital text" for those 8 to 25 year old members of the S.M.A.R.T. Foundation "Kickin-Off" community project, presenting as functionally illiterate, gained sufficient reading fluency to actively participate in learning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWx2cYtQJqY&feature=youtu.be

Back to the future: So, we are now up-grading from a social enterprise and working toward charitable status in order to commercialise a basic "reasonable ergonomic adaption" for employers to add to their "Wellbeing, Diversity & Inclusion" programs that will provide S.M.A.R.T. with the royalties to offer an educational version to those under 16 or post 16 in training or in the secure estate as youth offenders or adults, who up until now have been excluded from participating in vocational training / e-learning schemes simply because they were not enabled to read fluently during their school days, free of any license fees.

To this end, we would welcome your interest and support in our mission, if not to teach the world to sing but, enable reasonably fluent access to digital literacy and the IOT particularly e-learning for those effectively excluded from life-long learning with limited access to text.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C1jmwGIsGQ