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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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