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The
coloured lenses that help dyslexia
It’s believed
that up to six million people in Britain suffer from dyslexia to some
degree, and that one in 25 of us has it severely.
Young children
with dyslexia have difficulty at school, in spite of often being very
intelligent, with high IQs. They get behind with reading and writing
skills, and begin to suffer low self-esteem and confidence. Often
the dyslexia isn’t diagnosed.
However,
there is help available.
ChromaGen
lenses have been found often to have dramatic effects on vision, correcting
both colour blindness and dyslexia. More details of this at end
of article.
Another
avenue for exploration is the use of essential fatty acids, such as
EPA and a little GLA. This means fish oil plus a small amount
of evening primrose oil. For example
BioCare Mega EPA 1000 (Fish Oil Concentrate)
and
BioCare Evening Primrose Oil. We have written to
ask permission to publish some of the excellent work done by Dr Alexandra
J Richardson on this subject, but meanwhile you can read her article
entitled ‘Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and ADHD – Can Nutrition Help?’ at
www.dyslexic.org.uk/images/ajr_doc_efa.pdf
Some famous people with
Dyslexia
Richard
Branson - Entrepreneur
Cher -
Popstar, actress
Agatha
Christie - Author
Winston
Churchill - Prime Minister
Tom Cruise
- Actor
Leonardo
da Vinci - Artist, inventor (although long dead, had all signs of being
dyslexic)
Thomas
Edison - Inventor
Albert
Einstein - Scientist, mathematician
Noel Gallagher
- Oasis Rock Group, songwriter
Whoopi
Goldberg - Actress
Susan Hampshire
- Actress
Lord Philip
Harris - Carpet shop entrepreneur and millionaire
Michael
Heseltine - Politician
Anthony
Hopkins - Actor
Eddie Izzard
- Comedian
Felicity
Kendal - Actress
Jodie Kidd
- Super-model
Lynda La
Plante - TV Series Writer
Sandy Lyle
- Golfer
Sarah Miles
- Actress, author and playwright
Mike Norris
- Head of Computacenter
Dominic
O’Brien - World Memory Champion
Olaf –
King of Norway - (and his children)
Jamie Oliver
- TV Chef
Sir Steven
Redgrave - Winner of 5 consecutive Olympic Gold Medals for rowing
Anita Roddick
- Founder of The Body Shop
Anthea
Turner - TV Presenter, National Lottery, etc.
Ben Way
- Head of a £60,000 computer business at the age of 17
Robbie
Williams - Popstar
And many
more . . .
ChromaGen Lenses for Use in Dyslexia
ChromaGen lenses were
first developed for helping people with colour ‘blindness’. They
come in both contact lenses or spectacle lenses, which look like regular
sunglasses, and the colour tint is specific for each individual.
In the case of contact lenses, the filter entirely covers the wearer’s
pupil, so that in most cases they are virtually invisible.
Previous
work with colour tinted lenses showed that many people with learning
difficulties can benefit from them. An instrument called the Intuitive
Colorimeter, developed by the Medical Research Council in the UK, is
often used to assist in prescribing these filters. This
is the most commonly used method for prescribing filters, but recently
ChromaGen Lenses were compared with Intuitive Colorimeter lenses to
see how each type of lens affected the speed at which people could read.
The test used to monitor the reading is called the Wilkins Rate of Reading
Test.
Initial
results of the small pilot study show that ChromaGen lenses produced
a statistically highly significant improvement in the rate of reading,
whilst Intuitive Colorimeter lenses produced a marked, but not significant,
improvement in the rate of reading. (Optometry Today, 31st
July 1998, Volume 38:15).
List of Optometrists
providing ChromaGen lenses can be found on
www.dyslexiaa2z.com/visionchromagen.html
For more information
about dyslexia and for free assessment tests and treatment in
Glasgow, Scotland see
www.dyslexiatreatment.com
Also see:
nutrition
facts about ADHD
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