Re: dyslexia and tinted lenses
--- 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. = _ Jan William Coffey _ __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: dyslexia and tinted lenses
Jan Coffey wrote: 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. Absolutely. Some people are just more sensitive to certain types of noises or lights than others, and most of them fall within a broad range of normal for most other things. And some have sensitivities in those areas (the flickering, anyway) that have nothing to do with autism, but may have something to do with epilepsy, which is an entirely different matter. As an example as to how sensitivities like that can cause problems in learning environments: I'm bothered by fingernails on the chalkboard. I had a high school teacher who wasn't. She accidentally scratched the chalkboard one day, and about half the class, including all the musicians in the class, winced. She did it again deliberately, to the amusement of those who *weren't* wincing. If she'd regularly scratched the chalkboard, that would have made it a lot more difficult for some of us to learn. And our reaction was within perfectly normal bounds. Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
dyslexia and tinted lenses
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/ Sonja :o) GCU: Helping hand xGCU: Don't chop it off ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
