Irlen Screening

Irlen Screening Assessment

Irlen Syndrome is a visual processing disorder, rather than a vision problem. It affects reading and writing-base activities with children and adults seeing the printed page differently from proficient readers. Symptoms include a slow reading rate, inefficient reading, poor reading comprehension, strain, fatigue and an inability to do continuous reading. Students with Irlen Sydrome often appear bright but fail to produce to a level considered appropriate, and may have been labelled as “dumb”, “stupid” or “lazy”. Treatment employs the use of coloured filters or coloured overlays.

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Distortions

The video below shows how text can appear as blurry, rivers, halo, fading, ripple, see-saw, swirl, shaky, star war, wavy or washout. Some children and adults can see several distortions combined.
https://irlenclinic.com.au/irlen-symptoms/distortions/