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
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This is best viewed with skeptical glasses.
The evidence for coloured lenses for reading difficulties has been reviewed by a number of independent bodies with no financial stake in this treatment.
1)The Royal College of Ophthalmologists
2)The American Academy of Pediatrics
3)Department of Public Health Birmingham University/ West Midlands health Technology Assessment Board.
Comment is is made on lack of evidence for effect and poor quality of the trials
yeah i agree dyslexic ppl are gay
As said on another one of your comments that you've made on a video on the same subject, "…yet!"
This is still a very new area and there needs to be much more research done. I work with teenagers and adults who suffer from this and the difference it can make to a person when the headaches and other symptoms go away once they are able to use tinted glasses or slides is amazing.
Thanks. Neither of us knows what future trials will show. It is possible, although in my opinion unlikely, that someone will finally do a high quality randomised controlled trial that shows a beneficial effect on real world reading. However the authors of the above youtube video are claiming that this is an evidence based treatment here and now.
This is not a young field. There has been more than enough time for high quality studies rather than testimonials.