Thank you for responding.....I forgot, until you just wrote it. My
son has often said to me, "mom don't you see the I see the rings of
colors on the wall," which I never saw. He has never said it about
reading. But I am going to ask him.

I am now sure I am going to get him tested. I doubted the school and
myself because my son's eye doctor (he also has Strabismus) does not
seem to believe in it as well as the person that did the educational
testing.

What is the testing like? Is it expensive? Does health insurance pay
for it?

CAPDmom

--- In glimmercoloredfilterglasses@yahoogroups.com, "Donna Leonard"
<emmiezmom@...> wrote:
>
> 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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