Yet another reporter has covered the benefits of providing colored lenses or overlays for improving reading performance. Based on subjective reports from a child and her father, Morgan Bond of television station KPVI in Pocatello (ID, US) described Irlen’s Syndrome as the cause and blue-tinted glasses as the solution to Noel Chapman’s reading problems.
In a new-to-me twist, there is a known etiology for Irlen Syndrome.
Irlen’s is primarily a genetic disability but it can be brought about by head trauma. In Noel’s case, it was genetically passed down to her, even though neither of her parents exhibit signs.
I wonder how someone (who?) determined that Ms. Chapman’s problems are genetic. Regardless, I hope that Ms. Chapman gets some powerful reading instruction very soon. That’s likely to help a lot more in the long run than the colored glasses.
And, I’m sad that yet more folks—parents, children, and reporters—have been taken for this ride.
Link for Ms. Bond’s story.
Wow! It’s *back* to “Irlen Syndrome” from “Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome”? Many years ago, there was a push to call it SSS and avoid the Irlen name. I wonder what caused the name change?
Regardless, the “method” is still the same — unverified claims, hit-and-miss diagnostics, and a handy solution all for one price.
That head-trauma one is new — I wonder if Janet Lee-Schubert, made it up.
She’s got some sciency stuff going:
“What happens with Irlen’s is your brain timing is slow processing and makes it look like things are moving on the page.”
Lee-Schubert is evidently a licensed clinical professional counselor (LPCP) in Idaho. She also provides “brain fitness” from this company: http://www.positscience.com/ and this one: http://www.scilearn.com/our-approach/index.php