Irlen Syndrome, Dyslexia, Migraines, ADHD & Asperger’s Syndrome
as I scanned a map of California my Aunt Hazel and Uncle George Jacob had loaned me and my wife, Karen, a few names of communities actually lifted off the page before I had consciously read the names. I had literally just opened the map. One was Bostonia, where my mother, Helen Mary Higbee Wheaton, [...]
I went to the Dundee, Michigan, public library several times when I was in Dundee Community Schools trying to find a book that I thought I could manage to read. Hallie Eckert, the librarian, was so helpful, but I was never able to find a book that I was comfortable with. I had no idea [...]
There was a long pause followed by a reply “Yes.” My point was that I had always fallen asleep when I sat down to read. Always. I remember struggling to stay awake when I tried to read Steinbeck novels in the late 1950’s when I was in highschool in Dundee, Michigan. I even had to [...]
Read about his journey leading to correction of Irlen Syndrome by clicking here.
How did the following stars choose to wear tinted lenses: Whoppi Goldberg, Elton John, Ozzie Osborne.
Why aren’t more school districts screening students for Irlen Syndrome? To date about 4,000 schooll districts routinely screen students for Irlen Syndrome. My question. How many school districts are there in the USA?
Helen Irlen estimates that 46% of all children [...]
until Terre Castelnero, who I suspected to be an Irlen client, said she was never able to draw illustrating perspective. An example would be to draw a building showing perspective so that the foreground is larger than the background. I suddenly realized I had always struggled with this issue. Our son, Ryan, who has since [...]
Irlen Syndrome is all about visual perception (Click that). It is about what is unable to be perceived until corrective tinted lenses are received. Before I received my lenses I had to “scan” every image whether it was leaves on a tree or my wife’s face. After looking through my new lenses, designed just for [...]
A large, nationwide study published in a recent issue of The Archives of Internal Medicine suggests that older people who have difficulty reading have a 50% higher mortality rate over 5 years than those with adequate reading skills. According to the study people who can’t read are not able to do things to stay healthy. [...]
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