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filtered lenses for children with dsylexia
If reading can be improved with the use of coloured overlays or lenses and no other interventions, then the problem is probably not one of dyslexia, or not of dyslexia alone. Visual stress and binocular vision cause many reading difficulties and can be helped enormously with filters.
Dyslexia is a more complex difference and other supports will need to be put in place.
Ensure you tell the optometrist that your child has reading difficulties so that more detailed and specific tests can be carried out.
Check out the website of Dorothy Crystal, an optometrist in Edinburgh, who does wonderful work for free for many children. She suggests eye exercises where appropriate as well as diagnosing which colours are most suitable for individuals.
Every learner is different; one size does not fit all.
22/04/2010 19:49:17
Hilery (Member)
You could try out different coloured reading rulers found here. http://www.crossboweducation.com/plain_window_reading_rulers...
After trying them all out with my son,we found that the yellow one stopped multiple images of words forming for him. He could then move on to reading smaller paperback text.
26/03/2010 12:27:08
Sharon
Please look at my website www.migraine-dyslexia.com. Precision coloured lenses DO work for many dyslexic people. There are now quite a few specialists who can test and prescribe for them. A list of specialists is available.Testimonials are around describing how the lenses have turned people's lives around.
Simone
22/03/2010 15:14:16
Simone Viniker
Please can you give me information on these (what kind of filter to use, are they coloured etc?) and what the proper name on these
23/10/2009 11:59:00
Julia Levene
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