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One of my best friends' sons was supposedly mildly dyslexic and found secondary school written lessons a challenge.

He was given purple, I think, plastic sheets to put over his books to help read and has just achieved a first class honours degree. Well done Alex.

My son was labeled lazy and slow at primary school, as a trained nursery nurse i knew there was an underlying problem, i had to change his school and fight tooth and nail before anyone would believe he needed help, eventually got him privately tested with a colournomotrist, and he started off with a coloured overlay to use on his reading books, this proved a huge confidence boost for him and he began to improve instantly, he eventually went on to get aqua tinted glasses and sat 10 gcse's with the assistance of a reader, he gained passes in all his exams, and is now a fully fledged Royal Engineer.

Hello Brian,

My son use to use a coloured transparent sheet to go over his reading books. Cant remember off hand which colour he had but I know he got tested to see which colour would suit him the best. That was over 10 yrs ago.
Anne

I thought that this would have had more responsive (?) because a lot of people say that there children have education problems; children are the future of man-kind, so their education is importation and their sight is of great importance regarding their education. (I have had a stroke and my grammar and spelling could be atrocious. I find that it is very annoying that I can’t express myself.)
Brian(i)

Well done Ben.
Coloured lens have made a world of difference to my grandson too. I went to the special optician and saw him being tested and could hardly believe that something so simple could be such a help.There the different colours are used as filters to find out the optimum result for each particular child, before the glasses are made. Grandson has had them since Year 3, I think. His are purple.
Because there was nothing wrong with his actual vision, so lens were not corrective prescription, just coloured, my daughter had to pay the full charge for them, - alot of money.

I do wish that primary school children could be screened, especially if they seem to be obviously under-achieving.It might be cost effective in sometimes preventing a need for extra help in class.
I think this might help too with some poor behaviour, which sometimes stems from 'acting up' rather than being seen to be not able to complete a given piece of work.

To have an insight into how some children see the written word have a look at this link and click on the various 'perceptions' in the right side of the box.

http://irlen.com/distortioneffects.php

Gwyn

I have heard of this, it was on a TV programme , many years ago.
I wonder why it has taken so long for the people who 'rule' our education system to catch on?
Still, Ben has benefited from it and that , now, is all that matters.
Good luck Ben.
Deanna X

i have heard of this before, my friends daughter had to have coloured filters over anything that she was reading.
tina x

Ben Osborne-Harris is a bright teenager, who has sat two of his GCSE's a year earlier than normal.

But just a couple of years ago, the 13-year-old London schoolboy was struggling badly - because he could not read properly.

"He just found it incredibly difficult to grasp reading at school," said his mother Gaynor.

"His reading age was well below average. When he got homework I had to help him read it and when he sat his Sats tests at 11 (in English, maths and science) he had to have someone read the questions to him.

Coloured filters

"I initially thought he was dyslexic and took him to be tested but, because he could not read very well, the test did not work and they could not determine whether he was or was not."

Full story:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8107487.stm

Brian(i)