User:Tlaux87/King Devick Test

King Devick Test is a simple screening test that can be administered without the use of sophisticated instrumentation by non-eye care professionals to assess an individual's saccadic eye movements. For more than 25 years, the test has been an indicator of oculomotor visual performance for eye movements during reading, with hundreds of published papers in 19 different languages evaluating the test. It takes only a few minutes to administer and there is normative data for subjects age 6 to adulthood.

As defined in Mosby’s Medical Dictionary, 8th Edition, and Dorland’s Medical Dictionary, 30th Edition: “King-Devick Test /kingdev’ik/: a tool for evaluation of saccade, consisting of a series of charts of numbers. The charts become progressively more difficult to read in a flowing manner because of increasingly more difficult spacing between the numbers. Both errors in reading and speed of reading are included in deriving a score.”