Crossbow Education add to their visual stress support range.
Reading Rulers and A4 overlays from Crossbow Education are already helping children with Visual Stress (Irlen Syndrome) in over half the schools in the UK to access the printed page, with many children reporting “lightbulb moments” (as reported in the Autumn 2010 edition of this magazine) when [...]
My eldest daughter qualified as a doctor three years ago. However her teacher would never have predicted her career success when she in the infants, still just looking at the pictures when all her peers had launched into reading books; or in the juniors, when she seemed to spend more time gazing out of the [...]
What You See is What You Get
I like to understand things through pictures and imagery: before the advent (some would say the tyranny) of print this was the norm, whether the pictures were described through the medium of storytelling or parables, or whether the visual form was preserved in paintings or carvings. The brain, basically, [...]
We have a bloke working for us who is a very articulate, and very committed socialist. Talking to him today, I finally realise why I’m not; since, as a christian, I share many of his ideals. I think that the problem with socialism is that it actually makes an idol of the State. Resources (mainly [...]
This is more of a tweet, really.
Overlays do not cure Visual Stress, any more than spectacles cure short-sightedness. They simply adjust for its effects. But they can be just as useful!
Next time you are thinking breakfast thoughts, wrap a piece of bacon round a large mushroom and stick it on a tray in the oven for about 20 minutes. Even better, do it with two. Or three. Amazing!
This article was written for the Association of Teachers of Singing, and sent to us. What applies to music notes on a white page applies equally to letters! In particular, the author emphasises the effects of pressure on her students, and how this seems to increase visual difficulties for her students. Her experience highlights the [...]
The film below is a clip from “The One Show” (BBC)presenting the value of reading through colour, and showing reading rulers being used in a Dyslexia Friendly Classroom. This research group, represented here by Dr Mary Fowler, specifies the use of blue and yellow tints. A wider body of research, such as that led [...]
Here’s a thought. 5% of the population suffer from severe visual stress – to the extent that their reading is seriously affected. So – that would be about 2,000,000 people, excluding young children. If the government paid for all those people to have a pack of reading rulers, it would cost a mere £20,000,000.(Once they’d [...]