DrLeaHyvarinen

Dr. Hyvärinen is best known of the LEA Vision Test System. She started the development of the tests for the then new Vision Rehabilitation Centre in 1976. The LEA Symbols tests for assessment of vision in children also became popular in vision screening. The LEA Test System now contains 40+ tests for numerous clinical test situations and vision screening and for the assessment of children and adults with different communication needs.

Since 2003 Dr. Hyvärinen has worked as the Honorary Professor in Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Dortmund, Germany where she is developing the assessment of children with learning problems, especially in reading.

In 2011 she published with Namita Jacob a book titled “WHAT and HOW Does This Child See?”