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Summary: A Simple Solution for a Perplexing Problem
Review: A comprhensive book on Scotopic Sensitivity Irlen Synbdrome. As a retired special ed teacher who is involved in helping adults and children through this method, I think Rhonda has done an excellent job of outlining the benefits of this treatment and realistically dealing with the controversy surrounding it. It works and she tells us so and even why.
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Summary: The Light Barrier
Review: The Light Barrier is a comprehensive book about light based reading problems. As an individual who suffers from Irlen Syndrome, I can relate to the personal information Rhonda shares about her family's struggle to discover the source of her children's learning difficulties. As a professional providing services to others who suffer from Irlen Syndrome, I highly recommend that others read this book not only as a source of factual information, but as source of validation for those experiencing similar challenges.
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Summary: The Light Barrier
Review: The Light Barrier is a comprehensive book about light based reading problems. As an individual who suffers from Irlen Syndrome, I can relate to the personal information Rhonda shares about her family's struggle to discover the source of her children's learning difficulties. As a professional providing services to others who suffer from Irlen Syndrome, I highly recommend that others read this book not only as a source of factual information, but as source of validation for those experiencing similar challenges.
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Summary: The importance of understanding how lighting affects us
Review: This book explains how lighting affects our lives and our children's lives. It explains why we can be suffering from migraine headaches, not able to catch balls, have reading problems (poor comprehension, eye strain, difficulty in seeing the printed page correctly, become fidgety, etc).This is a book that all educators, school administrators, physicians, those in the field of optometry, social workers, prison personnel, and especially politicians should read. An even more important group of people who should read this book are parents. You are the ones that can make things happen for your children. When you discover how lighting can affect your life, you will certainly want to know what to do about it. This book tells everything you need to know about how to change your life if you or someone you know is light sensitive.
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Summary: The importance of understanding how lighting affects us
Review: This book explains how lighting affects our lives and our children's lives. It explains why we can be suffering from migraine headaches, not able to catch balls, have reading problems (poor comprehension, eye strain, difficulty in seeing the printed page correctly, become fidgety, etc). This is a book that all educators, school administrators, physicians, those in the field of optometry, social workers, prison personnel, and especially politicians should read. An even more important group of people who should read this book are parents. You are the ones that can make things happen for your children. When you discover how lighting can affect your life, you will certainly want to know what to do about it. This book tells everything you need to know about how to change your life if you or someone you know is light sensitive.
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Summary: The Light Barrier
Review: This book tells of the problems that children and adults are having and the difficult time they have finding a solution to the problem. The world want to put the everyone on drugs with all the side effects, without realizing there is a non-invasive way of dealing and eliminating the problem. Rhonda Stone does an incredible job writing about her own experiences with her kids and the ordeals they had to go through to finally find a solution.
I too have Irlen Syndrome and boy has the technology helped me. Great job Rhonda.
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Summary: The Light Barrier
Review: This book tells of the problems that children and adults are having and the difficult time they have finding a solution to the problem. The world want to put the everyone on drugs with all the side effects, without realizing there is a non-invasive way of dealing and eliminating the problem. Rhonda Stone does an incredible job writing about her own experiences with her kids and the ordeals they had to go through to finally find a solution.
I too have Irlen Syndrome and boy has the technology helped me. Great job Rhonda.
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Summary: The Light Barrier
Review: This carefully researched work unveils an invisible barrier that may affect 10 million American children in private and public schools who experience reading difficulties. Ms. Stone provides direction and ideas for both parents and professionals to help find a solution for those who may be labeled as underachievers.
The Light Barrier is a "must read" for every educator, pediatrician, and eye care professional who deals with students, of any age, who are struggling with classroom learning.
She has validated what I have been hearing repeatedly in my years of working with both the dyslexic and Irlen/scotopic population.
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Summary: The Light Barrier
Review: This carefully researched work unveils an invisible barrier that may affect 10 million American children in private and public schools who experience reading difficulties. Ms. Stone provides direction and ideas for both parents and professionals to help find a solution for those who may be labeled as underachievers.
The Light Barrier is a "must read" for every educator, pediatrician, and eye care professional who deals with students, of any age, who are struggling with classroom learning.
She has validated what I have been hearing repeatedly in my years of working with both the dyslexic and Irlen/scotopic population.
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Summary: Impressive and readable
Review: This is a good, solid book on the topic of light-related reading problems. The author, who has problems with light sensitivity herself, has two children who encountered reading problems and other problems of visual perception that were remedied by using tinted lenses and colored sheets of plastic. She describes their lives before getting glasses and overlays, the puzzlement of opthalmologists and other specialists, and the vast improvement in their lives afterwards. This book is more readable and goes further than its counterpart, Helen Irlen's _Reading by the Colors_. In particular, it describes people whose visual perception is distorted everywhere, not just on the printed page. This is a little-discussed aspect of the phenomenon that has come to be known as Irlen syndrome, since the original discovery of the use of color in helping people's visual perception was based on reading alone. However, it still mostly concentrates on reading and contends that anyone with severe enough visual perception problems for everything to be distorted would have significant reading difficulties too. I am an autistic and hyperlexic person whose level of visual distortion in everyday life has been described as severe, but whose reading is relatively unaffected despite distortion of the printed page. I was puzzled when my Irlen screener described me as having more severe Irlen syndrome than he did, because it seemed to me that he had more severe reading problems than I had ever had. The book makes the same mistake, and also describes people like me as extremely rare. It makes me wonder if we are simply under-researched because we don't present with reading difficulties, and if time will show greater understanding of our particular kind of visual perception issues. This is the only significant hole I could see in the research the author had done. A more minor problem I saw was that the book sought to excuse the high price and virtual monopoly by one company of the screening and tinting techniques. As a person on a very limited income, I only went to them and paid that much because I was desperate to be able to leave my house without being visually assaulted with distorted fragments of color. I wished that there were high-quality options available without paying all that money, and was disappointed to see that the book glossed over this by proclaiming it cheap in comparison to exorbitant prices I could never afford for other educational techniques or vision therapies. The glossy section in the middle of the book goes beyond showing reading distortions, and shows distortions of the rest of the world as well. It also shows the same text with a number of different colored backgrounds, showing how this might affect a person's reading comprehension. There are sections for parents and for professionals, although none on what to do if you are an adult discovering that you have these problems. Many of the suggestions, though, can be used by anyone. The author has done an extensive amount of research into the subject, understands that a lot is not known about why these things work, and provides lists of studies at the back that are pro, con, and neutral on the topic of color as used in helping people with reading difficulties. There is also a list of Internet resources at the back.
This is probably the best book on its topic to date, and I'd highly recommend it. I look forward to books that take some elements of this book, particularly its discussion of the non-reading-related aspects of Irlen syndrome (visual distortion and fragmentation) that apply to my life more than the reading-related ones do, and go further with them, though.
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