The Center for Creative Living, Inc.
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The Irlen Method
A piece of the puzzle for problems of:
Scotopic Sensitivity/Irlen Syndrome (SSS) is a perceptual problem that prevents an estimated 10-12% of the population from being able to learn, read, or study efficiently. Until now, it has baffled educators and the scientific community because it remains undetected by standard educational, visual, and medical tests. Individuals
with SSS may read slowly or inefficiently, have poor reading
comprehension, strain, or fatigue. SSS
can also affect attention span, listening, energy level, motivation work
production, and mental heath. Individuals
with SSS may be viewed as underachievers or as having behavior or attitude
problems. This problem can
coexist with other learning difficulties.
Some people diagnosed with learning difficulties, dyslexia, or ADD
may also, in addition be suffering from SSS. The
symptoms include difficulty with glare, fluorescent lights, sunlight, or
driving at night. There may
be problems with reading on high gloss white paper as the page may be
glary, "breathe," and interfere with the
ease of reading. Print,
numbers, or musical notes may appear to shift, shake, blur, move, double,
disappear, or become difficult to perceive. There
may be a restricted reading span which results in problems of tracking, of
correctly identifying words, or in the ability to skim or speed read. The
Irlen Method uses precision tinted filters, worn as glasses or as colored
overlays, to reduce or eliminate perception difficulties and light
sensitivity. An intensive
diagnostic assessment determines the beneficial filter color from an
almost limitless number of combinations.
Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide have been helped by this
method since 1983. Barbara David, Ed. S., is a certified Irlen Method Diagnostician. For
more information, visit the Irlen web site. |
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