05 Jun Corrective lenses for dyslexia offer hope
ChromaGen corrective lenses for Dyslexia – details at www.IReadBetterNow.com
As a former teacher and even now with my productivity consulting business, I run into a number of people who are living with dyslexia or have a family member who is. For many years, the typical advice given to them was to slow down when reading, use a sheet of paper and move it under each line of text while reading, or use a tinted overhead projector sheet as an overlay on the page. None of those worked wonders, but they did help.
Fast forward to 2012. I met an optometrist named Dr. Dawn Rakich, and she’s one of only a few medical professionals in San Antonio who are authorized to test patients for their viability for dyslexia lenses. They do not work for everyone (your test will let you know this before making any kind of purchase), but how wonderful to even have this option!
The product is called ChromaGen. It’s marketed as a “non-invasive treatment for visual reading disorders associated with dyslexia.” Its combination of colored filtering lenses with the correct prescription allow the wearer’s brain to transmit the formerly visually muddled text into a readable language.
Can you imagine going through life seeing blurry words or having words move around the page and appear in other places than they actually do? That’s a simplified way of describing what it’s like to have dyslexia. It slows down life and can lead to irreversible mistakes being made by the reader because they completely misinterpreted the text because of the dyslexia.
I own no stock in this company and make no money by plugging them. I just think everyone should know about a possible tool to aid those with dyslexia. This could be a huge boost in productivity – not to mention self-esteem – for those with reading disorders.
Visit www.IReadBetterNow.com for details. If you live in San Antonio, visit www.DawnRakich.com.
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Helene Segura teaches go-getters how to use their time more efficiently in order to have a more peaceful life. For details about her, be sure to visit https://www.HeleneSegura.com
picturesightwords
Posted at 20:33h, 10 JuneI don’t know if you’ve heard of Irlen Syndrome, but that’s exactly the condition you’re describing. Helen Irlen discovered this 30 years ago and you can find more info on her website. Individuals who have Irlen (also called Scotopic Sensitivity) are known to have “visual dyslexia”, that’s the only kind that’s corrected by the colored overlays and filters. Regular dyslexia is far different and needs the usual one on one intervention in an Orton Gillingham method before the child can make progress.
Nice to know an optometrist is using the colored overlays and lenses though. Ironically, they are ones who resist these the most, because they can find nothing wrong with the eyes, it’s a visual perceptual processing problem…
Thanks for posting about it though!
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LivingOrderSA
Posted at 08:39h, 11 JuneThank you so very much for posting this info! The more knowledge we have, the better!