For the initial testing appointment, I saw Helen Irlen. For the
filters appointment, I saw Marilyn Ashley.

My filters will be very dark blue/grey, with some green on the one
eye (I haven't used that eye to see in forever since when it turns
on, all I see are flashes of light, so it was amazing to get some
vision out of it at all).

In school they thought I had ADD. Then they thought I had
dyslexia. My parents said both of those are made up so I couldn't
have either and said I was just a lazy child who refused to read (oh
how I would have LOVED to read if I could have, I read so many books
on audio as soon as I found out about that, and before that, I read
thousands of pages using computer reading software where the
computer reads to me). Now in my 4th year of college, I finally
have my own job and a car (took me forever to learn to drive), so I
got testing. I might get dyslexia testing as well because now our
school says they do it (2 years ago when I went in, they did not).


Val

--- In glimmercoloredfilterglasses@yahoogroups.com, "Donna Leonard"
<emmiezmom@...> wrote:
>
> What i have been told is that if one in the family has Irlen then
you best
> be looking around at the rest of your family ther ewill be at
least 1 or so
> more all of us have it in my family, my husband and i both have it
as well
> as both of our children, oh and my mother too has iren as well she
is going
> for her glasses soon too.
>
> * my glasses are golden yellow and medium blue my oldest daughter
has deep
> purple purple grey and deep blue for her indoor glasses for her
out dooor
> glasses she has another 20 tints to me the color looks like mud
but they
> work well for her. My youngets has teal blue medium blue and
orange.*
> **
> *Now you know you have Irlen you will be able to recognize the
symptoms in
> your children and they won't suffer like you did. I know it took
me about 7
> years of fighting with the school system to get them to help us,
so when i
> moved them out of public school and put them in a reserve school
right away
> they brought in the specialists that helped my girl and from there
the rest
> of us got the help we needed.*
> **
> * Who was your diagnostician? we have seen Val Rizok in Dauphin
and Bev Butt
> in Regina both are great to work with and both i would trust.*
>
>
>
>
> On 5/1/07, Val <poetic_pets@...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Welcome! I am still anxiously awaiting my filters. :) Glad to
hear
> > they've worked so well for you.
> >
> > It makes me worry about possibly being a parent that everyone
seems to
> > have kids with Irlen as well. I'm severe and wouldn't want me
kids to
> > have the same problems I did in school. I wonder if there is any
> > research on exactly how common it is for it to be genetically
linked?
> >
> > Val
> >
> > --- In
glimmercoloredfilterglasses@yahoogroups.com<glimmercoloredfilterglass
es%40yahoogroups.com>,
> > "leonarddonna_1963"
> > <emmiezmom@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I ahve been diagnosed for 2 years now and the difference is
> > incredible
> > > i have had to have my glasses changed once in the 2 years but
i am
> > now
> > > better no headache any more.
> > >
> > > I just joined this site and wanted to say hi.
> > >
> > > Donna Leonard
> > > (mom of 2 children who are also severe Irlen)
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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