Letter from a happy mother:Dear Dr. Kessler,We came to your office on April 11th. WoW! What a difference the Irlen Method has madein my son’s life! He has been using the colored overlaywhile we are waiting for his Irlen glasses. The first day that he used the overlay at home, he just stared at the book. When I asked what was wrong he looked at me in amazement and said “I can read!” and he did. He says the overlay is magic. Each day when he uses his overlayhe has the same reaction. Amazement that he can read. My 9-year-old son hugs me and thanks me for taking him to see you. Today he is reading a comic book that he has been struggling to read over the past couple of months. After flipping the overlay on and off the book he realized that he doesn’t even see all the words without the overlay. He said he cannot believe all the things he has been missing all these years.I cannot thank you enough for helping me to finally find the answer to his reading difficulties. I have told every person I know about Irlen Syndrome-and have sent out mass e-mail on my homeschool groups-trying to spread the word so that others don’t have to struggle like Josh did. Not one person that I have spoken to has ever even heard of it, including several teachers. Then a copule days ago my aunt saw a news clip on ABC about Irlen Syndrome.Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.Christine T.(the mom who still cries every time Josh reads to her!)
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackHi Christine. You and I are both mothers of nine-year-olds and, it seems, we both cry!
I took my daughter to be tested yesterday, after years of frustration in trying to use the same methods, that I use to learn, with her.
To hear her describe what she saw to the consultant was unnerving, to say the least. Georgia sees purple coming out of the black text, vibration, lines of words moving up the page and her focus on the white is so powerful that she sees rivers of white on the page and loses letters altogether.
When she was tested to count symbols and spaces in different patterns, she couldn’t do it - during one of the tests she got to five and then couldn’t go any further. She became hot and flushed - a real physical reaction to an activity that was really straining her mind. With the overlay, she got every one of them 100% correct, without hestitation and with an incredible confidence. That’s when I started to bawl…. I couldn’t imaging what it would be like to have such an infuriating (is there another word for ‘disability’?)
Georgia is a very bright girl, with amazing mathematical and artistic ability. It’s words that have been her problem, until now. Thank God we found this.
She couldn’t contain her joy. She doesn’t care what colour the glasses have to be - she just wants them so badly now. So, Christine, I am looking forward to joining you in spilling a few more tears of joy when she’s reading with confidence… and actually enjoying it! Jane
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