LC Technologies entered into a collaborative arrangement with a large school district in Pennsylvania in 2001 in which the Eyegaze System is being used to assess the reading abilities of various segments of the 7,200 member student population. 

After some initial pilot testing, a number of ideas for a more long-range projects were proposed. In order to make maximum use of the resources available within the school district and the company, it was decided that the project with the greatest potential payoff would be a simple screening of new students entering the first grade in one particular elementary school. The Eyegaze testing would then continue with these same students during each subsequent year through the sixth grade. 

With a relatively low turnover rate of the students of the district, and with an extensive set of remedial reading programs in place throughout all the grades, this type of project offers an excellent opportunity to build student reading profiles and related growth curves from the day the students enter the first grade until they complete their elementary education. No study of this nature has ever been done before. There are clearly unlimited benefits associated with the ability to acquire reliable quantitative information in a quick, non-interfering, and extremely cost-effective manner, showing how students are progressing through the developmental reading phase of their early education period.

LC Technologies may propose additional work that could involve:

• Verification and evaluation of student scanning ability including the detection of key word, and verification and evaluation of content comprehension.
• Development of computer games for teaching reading skills with auditory and icon/visual reward feedback for reading progress.
• evaluations of students with severe disabilities and use of the eyegaze system to augment the learning process.