| From: | Mark Wilson |
| Date: | 9 Aug 2000 at 11:12:45 |
| Subject: | Re: dyslexia |
On Wed, 09 Aug 00 11:03:51 tim wrote:
Hi tim,
> A common symptom with "dyslexics" is that words appear to move around on the
> page, making them difficult to read, and making it difficult to scan along
> lines of text.
I dont suffer with this.
> The reason I quoted dyslexics, is that people with this particular type of
> dyslexia are no longer counted as being dyslexic. They have a heightened
> visual accuity (like 7-of-9 ;-) ) which makes them over-sensitive to
> contrast. Using a coloured sheet of plastic over the page or wearing
> coloured spectacles often solves the problem! Different people find
> different colours best.
> Yellow seems to be the most popular, but my son can't even look at yellow
> pages. He prefers blue, and now has blue contact lenses which reduce the
> contrast that he sees.
Have you ever checked out something I think is spelled Eirling Syndrome? My
Half brother has it and has to wear tinted coloured glasses as he suffers with
the effects you describe, I`m sure if you spent 5 minutes searching online
you`d come up with some pretty interesting stuff.
My brother has to wear red coloured glassses which he says allows him to see
the words without them "dancing" around on the page, he said they would
sometimes drop the the page like a waterfall. I am dyslexic, but I`ve never
suffered with anything like that.
> Unfortunately, the research progam that helped my son has been abandoned due
> to cuts in funding, so others may not be so lucky in future.
I had my deslexia support removed at college due to funding cuts. So I flunked
the course.
Cheers Kids,
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