Intervention – See it Right! is a new authentic assessment designed to identify and remediate visual-perceptual problems caused by scotopic sensitivity
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Closing the Gap: Do your students see it right? Use color to increase reading skills – Red, yellow, blue and green, part of a rainbow? Yes, and just a few of the many colors that might help that student who does not see correctly what’s on the page.
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Diagnosis and Remediation of Visual Perceptual Problems by the use of colored Transparencies – A New Approach – The following definition is from the Irlen Institute: “Scotopic Sensitivity/Irlen Syndrome (SSS) is a perceptual dysfunction associated with the brain’s ability to accurately process visual information. Looking through color may correct this difficulty by altering the timing by which the visual information is received and processed. Individuals with this dysfunction report problems of print and/or background distortions, especially when reading black print on white paper and under bright lighting or under fluorescent lighting. Such difficulties are reported despite visual examinations and correction and affect principally reading and writing-based activities. Individuals with SSS may read slowly, or inefficiently, or have poor comprehension, eye strain, or fatigue.” Historically, this set of behavioral symptoms has been described by several authors in the literature about reading difficulties.
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Evaluation of the Light Sensitivity Project in Pomona Unified School District This an evaluation of the Light Sensitivity Project in the Pomona Unified School District. The findings of the evaluation support the argument that participation in the pro gram leads to higher achievement scores. The evaluation design, however, needed better controls for selection effects, history effects, Hawthorne effects, and instrumentation effects. A better designed study is planned for the near future.
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Photon Induced Visual Abnormalities (PIVA) and Visual Dyslexia paper presents a unique fundamental causal theory for some forms of visual dyslexia. This work posits that photon energies, specific to hypersensitive individuals, induce within the eye’s photopic photoreceptors the conditions that create dyslexic-type visual abnormalities, and that those photon energies can be effectively suppressed before they reach the visual system of susceptible individuals. Dyslexic individuals often experience symptomatic relief when treated with specific colored transparent overlays. This work is an outcome arising from a rigorous mathematical analysis of therapeutically successful colored transparency performance (see Henson-Parker reference) and electromagnetic spectrum physics.
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