--- Sonja van Baardwijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Last week I've seen a BBC documentary on a single parent family with 7
> kids. Of these 7, 4 kids (the boys) had various hereditary
> disfunctions/diseases/handicaps. One thing they had in common was that
> they all had autism in one form or another, with dyslexia being just one
> of the problems that having autism can result in. (not sure this is
> gramatically correct or even makes sense :o)) I found the documentary
> give a rather refreshing view on autism and how this can affect family
> life.
> (See www.bbc.co.uk/ouch, the Jackson family for info)
>
> But the reason I mention this at all is that there was something about
> amazing improvements of the dislexia for these boys by using differently
> coloured lenses.
>
> from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/tvradio/autism/specs.shtml
> Some people with visual dyslexia have found that altering the light in a
> room using specially tinted lenses can lessen their reading difficulties.
>
> There are a number of links to other sites mentioning this as well,
> especially
> http://www.visualdyslexia.com/
>
I feel that it is important to note that "visual Dyslexia" is an overloading
of the word "dyslexia" and actauly has nothing at all to do with ~real~
dyslexia.
I also feel that it is necisary to note that there is a lot of quackery
around learning "disabilities". FREX "The Gift of dyslexia" is a
non-scientific book with absolutly rediculous notions like dyslexics shoes
come untied more often, and that dyslexic are clumbsy. There are studies by
~real~ scientists such as Shaywitz shoing that this stuff is nonsense.
One does not have to be autistic to have a hightened sense for such things as
flickering lights or shrill electronics. The average person can only see
"flicker" below some frequency (can't remember what it si just now) and the
above average person can only here between 20 Htz and 20k Htz. There are
individuals who can see and here better, and they are often distracted in
learning environemnts that contain such noise.
It is rediculous to suggest that a student should wear dark red glasses when
the lighting could simply be adjusted. Especialy if the student is autistic
and is having a difficult enough time socialy anyway.
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