My child has seen a specialist at school and was given colored overlays for Photopic Sensitivity or Irlen Syndrome. Does your center diagnose or confirm the diagnosis of Irlen Syndrome?
At the Vision Learning Center, we seek to treat the problems and not the symptoms, so we do not test for Irlen Syndrome. There are other ways to put the visual system in balance, even in a compensatory way. Research shows that up to 95% of subjects identified as having Irlen Syndrome had significant and readily identifiable vision anomalies such as refractive error, binocular or eye movement control problems. Though marketing materials for Irlen diagnostic testing states that clients are encouraged to have a comprehensive vision exam, research studies also show that only 57% of clients have received vision care. Of those clients identified as having Irlen Syndrome, 90% of them still had significant uncorrected vision problems which could be remediated. Our advice to you is to get a full vision exam to diagnose the cause of the symptoms so that the problem can be eliminated. Though colored overlays can temporarily improve reading because of how it changes the awareness of a particular p
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