Welcome to the group
First i would like to say this sure sounds like Irlen, first of all both of
my children and myself have it and the same things you decribe are what mine
suffered before they finally got thier glasses and filters. The difference
is like night and day.My oldest saw glowing rings of color around the words
on paper the blurry moving words and all she was not to bad in math but
horrid with reading and just refused when she had to. My youngst never said
and thing about the words or anything but she could not read or read hand
writing neither could she write she prefers to print so as long as she can
do some thing i don't mind the work gets done easier, less arguing that way
too. I chose to remove my children from public school and home school them
because of the lights and all the other noises they heard cuts down on the
headaches and such too this way they learn i feel better and are much
happier than before so much luck with what ever you decide it will make life
so much easier for your son and for you if you decide to get the testing
done i don't regret it for a second i am just happy i was given the
opportunity to have mine tested.





On 3/22/08, capdmom <capdmom@...> wrote:
>
> Hi, I am new to this group (new to online groups in general). I have
> a 9 ½ year old son, in the third grade, that is having trouble in
> school. We just had an educational evaluation done and it did not
> show any issues and his over all IQ was 110. However, the evaluator
> encouraged us to get an evaluation for CAPD. There is a strong
> history in our family. I am also Dyslexic. I do think he might may
> have CAPD.
>
> In addition to this, my sons School is wondering if he has Irlen
> Syndrome. So I have Joined this group to better educated myself. The
> problems I see with my sons reading is that he reads very slowly when
> he reads out loud, he tends to skip small words like the, he, etc.
> He often uses his finger or book mark when reading and tends to read
> faster when he uses them. He has clear avoidance behavior when it
> comes to reading. He does read directions on school work. He is the
> least likely in his class to settle down and focus on reading during
> his independent reading hour in school. He does not have the greatest
> hand writing. According to his teacher his Capitalization and
> Punctuation is poor and although he is good in math he tends to make
> careless mistakes.
>
> Given the above issues I do believe he is having some type of
> Tracking issue and/or motor control issue while reading. However, he
> has never complained about light being too bright or the words moving
> or blurry on the page. And at this point I think he feels self
> conscious about everything and has clammed up and does not want to
> talk about it. And I do not want to push him.
>
> My questions are.....What types of comments are parents hearing from
> their children who have Irlen Syndrome. What behaviors are parents
> seen from their children that have Irlen Syndrome. And does anyone
> have a child that has both Irlen Syndrome and CAPD?
>
> Thank you
> CAPDmom
>
>
>


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