Hi Julie,
Thank you for posting the insightful message from Rhonda Stone.
Please ask her to try to join the group again. If she continues to
have trouble, please have her email me and I will do everything I
can to help.
Robin
--- In glimmercoloredfilterglasses@yahoogroups.com, "Julie M. Evans"
<julie@c...> wrote:
> Rhonda Stone, author of The Light Barrier (about Irlen Syndrome and
> treatment; St. Martin's Press, 2003), whose two children wear
Irlen lenses,
> has this comment. (She has had problems becoming a member of this
list and
> asked me to post this.)
>
> Dear Charles,
>
> The American medical establishment would much rather believe that
we read
> through our "ears" (phonemic awareness and phonics) than through
our
> "eyes" -- which, in the view of the field of ophthalmology, is
limited to
> all of the "equipment" associated with the eyeball. Everything
that happens
> with vision and visual perception in the brain appears to these
medical
> doctors to have nothing to do with health and learning.
>
> Now, how logical is that??? Every other organ of the human body
can have
> variations in function and dysfunction depending upon a host of
factors --
> but, in their view, the visual pathways and visual perceptual
centers of the
> brain cannot.
>
> Children should not have to suffer because "scientists" prefer to
look only
> at the puzzle piece they hold in their own hands. The speech-and-
language
> (phonemic awareness and phonics) scientists look no further than
their own
> puzzle piece. Ophthalmology looks only at its puzzle piece. Etc.,
etc.,
> etc., etc. In the mean time, 20 million children in America
continue to
> struggle with reading.
>
> I am thrilled that my children are now outstanding students -- but
my heart
> breaks for every child being diagnosed with ADD, ADHD, and
dyslexia who
> really has an undiagnosed problem with visual perception.
>
> Best wishes,
> Rhonda Stone
> Parent Advocate, Reading Issues
> Author, The Light Barrier