How coloured glasses can help people with dyslexia and visual stress:
Tom has a condition known as Mears-Irlen Syndrome or Visual Stress. The text on page, when reading, multiplies in a random and un-focused way, leaving reading extremely difficult and exhausting. The personalized coloured lenses enabled Tom to read normally and even gave him chance of going to university. The video also shows the difficulties he experienced, especially from the misunderstanding of his condition by the local authorities.
More about visual stress treatment:
www.cityeyesopticians.com
www.colorimetryinstitute.org
Likes: 81
Views: 10387
Leave a Reply
Comments are closed.
Philip – I have a 16 year old daughter who was a star all through primary, suddenly started to fail at the beginning of senior school, then regained her 'stardom' after being diagnosed with Meares Irlen. I understand how difficult a subject it is and how difficult it is to 'prove', but I think you need to live with someone who cries with delight at being able to read a 'normal' book for the first time after getting the new lenses (dark blue and turquoise) before you dismiss this. The issue for her, and the reason behind the failure – in senior school they no longer read out the questions. It was that simple. It was only then that we discovered that this highly intelligent child couldn't read the short sentences/questions, because they moved around so much and she missed so many words that they were unintelligible. I realise this may not change your mind – but for me, with a double first in english and medieval languages and an assumption that my child saw the world the same way – this was a massive education. My hope is that you do not experience the same awakening of understanding as a parent – it is the hardest thing in the world to do and your own sense of failure at not recognising the problem is enormous. I cannot thank enough the specialists who ignore the skeptics – and without doubt I would have been among them before this experience, unfortunately
Thank you. I am pleased to hear of your daughters resumed success and hope it continues in the future. Historically there have been very few treatments that have not been backed by testimonials and the power of the placebo effect can be huge.
You state that difficult it is to prove the benefit of tinted lenses. Not so. The benefits of precision tinted lenses compared to placebo lenses, on real world reading, should be amenable to the randomized controlled trial . Those trials have shown no benefit.
I congratulate you on your double first in english and medieval languages.
Ok Mr Phillip Jones. You are quite welcome to perform both the SPECT brain scan and the fMRI brain scan in a series of brain scans. Then we can both satisfy our curiosities. Of course I am an Irlen Syndrome sufferer and a severe one at that. Migraines are common place for me without my Irlen tints. But I believe you can't be bothered because you are ultimately arrogant and up yourself. However you are welcome to prove me wrong and then the egg is on my face. Look forward to hearing from you.
In reply to Gwion Healy
Thank you fMRI studies are notoriously difficult to interpret. I refer to the famous series of scans, using standard protocol, of a dead salmon where all sorts of the brain areas light up. However, the real point is that ultimately you have to prove the treatment improves real world behaviour not brain scans. For the subject under discussion here, reading impairment not migraine, that has not been achieved for for either Irlen lenses or lenses prescribed using the intuitive colorimeter. With regard to your personal comments about me, my partner has read them and she agrees with you.
Have you seen the latest from Bristol University? Their research has concluded that dyslexia has nothing to do with eyesight and coloured overlays or lenses won't help. Never mind the fact that a lot of people find them helpful. They were saying that they were concerned about parents spending lots of money on expensive help. They were also very keen on phonetics as helping to overcome reading difficulties, which is really being pushed as the teaching standard right now. This sounds like this is going to be the general trend. Help for dyslexics is an expense to fund so this sounds like a way to cut it. I do find the current tests for long sightedness do not go far enough so I think a quite a few cases of this might be missed.
I've got it
I have visual stress and my glasses (purple) are coming in 4 weeks! I'm so excited😆 it sounds stupid but honestly my overlay helps so much and helps me process things a lot faster. I'm not stupid. None of us are. Some of us just need some special things that help us be einstiens.
I have this
That awkward moment when you realize the main guy is you but British and blond…
I’ve got visual stress and dyslexia.as you can imagine it’s not very good