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Below are a series of videos that will help you gain more insight about Irlen Syndrome.
My Dyslexia Reading Glasses
Understanding Irlen Syndrome and the Irlen Method
Superintendent Acquires Irlen Syndrome from Head Injury
My Irlen Story: they said it was all in my head
Irlen Syndrome
Books
Reading by the Colours

The Story-Snatchers

The Picture
Pinchers

The Word Gobblers

FAQs
– Be positive and acknowledge and work with your child’s strengths.
– Help your child recognise his / her strengths.
– Use strategies like visualisation when working with your child on school tasks like spelling.
– Modification of the environment is often very useful, eg. dimmer lighting, coloured paper, coloured overheard transparencies, avoiding whiteboards, use of a visor or cap in glary situations. Suggest this to the teacher.
– Talk to your child about the language to use when others comment on their glasses.
– Talk to teachers about Irlen™ Syndrome, mention the websites as well, and how it affects your child.
– Take along a copy of the report for the child’s file at school.
Irlen Helen. Reading by the Colors: Overcoming Dyslexia and Other Reading Disabilities through the Irlen Method. (1991) Avery, NY.
Freed, Jeffrey & Parsons, Laurie: Right Brained Children in a Left Brained World. Simon and Schuster NY 1997.
Check the observation form. Not all the symptoms described need be present for Irlen™ Filter Lenses to be helpful. If several symptoms persist despite eye checks, then an Irlen™ Diagnostic Assessment is recommended.
All clients should be seen by an optometrist (or ophthalmologist) before attending and Irlen™ clinic.
There are many research articles. Check the websites www.aaic.org.au and www.irlen.com.
Much of the earlier research is educational in nature. In later years, it has been linked to biochemical studies, and currently research is being conducted using SPECT scans. This technology enables the brain to be studied. The scans of clients using Irlen™ lenses show remarkable differences in brain activity.
Helen Irlen called this disorder “Scotopic Sensitivity”. It is most frequently referred to as Irlen™ Syndrome. Essentially it is a specific sensitivity of the visual / perceptual system to certain frequencies within the white light spectrum.
Prominent educators in the field of Special Education, including Dr Greg Robinson, University of Newcastle, consider this to be the biggest breakthrough in learning disabilities for more than twenty years.
Research indicates that over half of the people, both children and adults, who find reading difficult, fatiguing or stressful, can be helped considerably with Irlen™ Filter Lenses.