Hi Brenda,

That is great that your daughter sounds like a good candidate for
Helen Irlen Glasses! It means she can have help for her learning
disabilities. How fabulous!

You are smart for wanting to digest, absorb until you are satisfied
with renegotiating your values, opinions and beliefs about the color
overlays. It still amazes me when I think back at how lighted affected
my ability to process information within my brain after my whiplash
brain injury (WBI). I have seen so many doctors since my auto
accident and not one ever showed any real concern about my light
sensitivity! Which was always at the core of my symptoms. Before I
went to see Helen I wore these psychedelic (wild) "pink" wrap around
glasses to protect my eyes (now I know it was really my brain). They
helped so much to reduce my seizure disorder, and increase my ability
to function.

The neurologist I had gone to see were amused at my behavior wearing
them, than it being neurological, but at the same time they were the
ones who missed my WBI. Out of embarrassment I stopped wearing them, I
got worse (I did not know why), finally I went to see Helen, I was
tested, and the colors were similar to the wrap arounds I had. Except
Helen tested the right colors that were superior and they helped me
push the envelope with my WBI when they helped calm my system down.

I love to write, but I struggle with past tense/present tense (I can't
feel the difference), I can't "feel" time (spatial), I mix up my
singular with plural (I don't have a clue at the time I am doing
this), and get words out of order, nouns...kind of like Dyslexia, and
Learning Disabilities. Doctors are still accessing the extent of my
brain dysfunctions from my WBI. It has taken me over 14 years to find
the right tools, things, connections, people, support, and doctors to
help me find opportunities for WBI I need help from.

It saddens me how this medical society sells people out who have WBI
(or similar), and tell patients to be good little patients…accept it,
roll over and "die" attitude. There is so much more that can be done
to help. Because there is so much information, it can be so
overwhelming at times. What is a sham, what is good, what is not… Only
after I feel good about doing something will I put myself out there,
and only in effort to restructure my brain…to see how much of more I
can over come.

Still, it astounds and amazes me how the Color filter glasses were the
first and only things that helped me with my WBI, regardless of how
unconventional they were, and before anyone diagnosed my WBI! It's
okay to take one step at a time in certain situations. Always listen
to your inner timing and rhythm. It has worked for me, and sometimes
there is a process to healing, and just as long as you flow right with
the right stuff, and when you know it's the right timing and rhythm to
follow.

In the mean time I see Julie has offered some very helpful tips for
your daughter's school to begin the education process there. "Nothing"
in life is for free, whether it's through effort, resources,
responsibility, or actions. You are going to try peach overlays, and
salmon color paper first... It will be trail and error, hit and miss,
and until you figure what things are right. It's only the one's who
roll up their sleeves and get busy who have a chance in life. Good Luck.

Lu