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What Is Irlen Syndrome Executive Summary This document has been prepared by the Trust Manager of the Empowered Learning Trust to outline the details and results of the Irlen and Visions Screening Project that has been carried out in the wider Reporoa area between 2012 and 2015. It details the screening process followed by the Trust, results found, and comments from the various stakeholders. It demonstrates the incidence of Irlen Syndrome in our community, and the benefit of fitting coloured filters to rectify the visual distortions experienced by those affected by Irlen Syndrome. Please contact the author before using any of the material contained in this document. [email protected] 1 Contents Introduction to the Empowered Learning Trust ................................................................................ 3 What is Irlen Syndrome ....................................................................................................................... 4 Brain scans showing the positive effects of wearing Irlen Lenses .................................................... 7 Overview of the Irlen & Vision Screening Project ............................................................................... 8 Summary of results ............................................................................................................................. 13 Stories from children with Irlen Syndrome fitted with lenses ......................................................... 18 Parent Feedback ................................................................................................................................ 34 Feedback from Irlen Diagnosticians .................................................................................................. 38 School & Teacher feedback ............................................................................................................... 39 Optometrist feedback ....................................................................................................................... 43 News articles about our Irlen Project ............................................................................................... 45 Sponsors of the Project ..................................................................................................................... 47 Empowered Learning Trust – Trustee and Staff Profiles ................................................................. 48 2 Introduction to the Empowered Learning Trust The Empowered Learning Trust is a charitable trust established in the Reporoa area, to support children, adults and families who are affected by Learning Difficulties, and to help remove barriers to learning. It is also our aim to support the schools and organisations that are helping these children. We feel that a person’s ability to succeed should not be limited by their inability to access information or education. Our aim is to remove any such barriers to success so that every member of our community has the chance to succeed in the way they choose. Long term, we hope that by assisting these young people with learning difficulties, we will improve their confidence, self-esteem and employability. Ultimately, this will lead to individuals more likely to engage positively in the community, and possibly reduce crime, unemployment, and other social issues associated with poor education outcomes. This project aims to identify any students with Irlen Syndrome, or other visual difficulties and provide corrective lenses. Our trustees are community members with backgrounds in health, education and business who all have the common vision of making a difference in our community, specifically for those affected by any barriers to learning. (Our profiles are at the back of this document) Empowered Learning Trust Mission Statement “ It is the intention of the Empowered Learning Trust to engage in projects that work towards removing barriers to learning, allowing students to reach their true potential. These efforts will improve the holistic well-being of individuals, which will ultimately lead to a safer, more productive community. The cornerstones to our work are integrity, generosity, collaboration and fostering the understanding of difference.” 3 What is Irlen Syndrome Irlen Syndrome is a visual processing difficulty that affects the way people see the written word, and may also affect the depth and distance vision. Irlens is not a learning difficulty, and can be helped by using coloured lenses or filters. Characteristics that separate people with Irlen Syndrome from other types of reading difficulty are: It impedes the speed and consistency of letter and word recognition, forcing individuals to read a different way they see different effects on the paper: such as white spaces looking like rivers; words that move, swirl or vibrate; letters that become blurry or float above the page. Irlens may even make people feel sick while they are reading and they commonly get headaches and sore or itching eyes. See examples at: http://irlen.com/distortioneffects.php Because of this many students with Irlen Syndrome struggle to keep up at school, and those that can read find they tire easily and get a lot of headaches and sore eye. The environment they read in may also contribute to the difficulty they have in reading. The level and type of light can make symptoms worse (harsh fluorescent lighting in schools is the worst). Although they can read in this environment it takes a lot of energy, meaning that they have very little left for comprehension and understanding of meaning. Bright white paper and whiteboards also increase the difficulty for Irlens students. Off- white paper and an easy to read font makes life easier, as do off-white or grey class boards. Could you have Irlens? Do you skip words or lines while reading? Do you reread lines? Do you lose your place while reading? Are you easily distracted while reading? Do you need to take breaks often? Do you find it harder to read the longer you read? Do you get headaches when you read? Do your eyes get red and watery when you read? Does reading make you tired? Do you blink or squint? Do you prefer to read in dim light? Do you read close to the page? Do you use your finger or other markers? Do you get restless, active or fidgety while reading? If you say yes to three or more of these questions you could be a candidate for Irlen screening, and Irlen coloured filters may be the answer. 4 These are some of the distortion effects that a person with Irlen Syndrome might see on the written page: 5 6 5 Brain scans showing the positive effects of wearing Irlen Lenses It has been proved scientifically through brain imaging, that wearing Irlen filters/lenses calms down excess brain activity that causes these visual disturbances for Irlen students. The image below shows the effects on the brain while reading before wearing Irlen filters, and while wearing Irlen filters. 7 5 Overview of the Irlen & Vision Screening Project The ELT Community Irlen Screeners Kim and Sarah, go out into our local schools and screen children for visual issues. If any visual issues are identified, the child is referred on to an Optometrist for a standard optometric evaluation. Once this had been done, the child goes on to an Irlen Diagnostician for Irlen testing. Kim Shearer and Sarah McKnight outside our offices at Reporoa Primary School Sarah and Kim have backgrounds in health and education, and have been trained as Irlen Screeners by Irlen New Zealand. They are also well supported by the Irlen Diagnosticians in Rotorua. As part of the project we trained teachers, and teacher aides as Irlen Screeners, along with a registered Nurse from Reporoa Community Health. Children from Lake Rerewhakaaitu School with Irlen Lenses 8 5 The Irlen Screening Projects in 2012, 2013 and 2014 are a collaboration between the Empowered Learning Trust, Reporoa Valley Schools Cluster, Murupara, Kaingaroa and Galatea Schools, Irlen New Zealand, and Visique McClelland Optometrist, Rotorua. Together we are helping to remove barriers to learning, so that children can better access their education and reach their true potential. Students with corrective lenses find We have sought support from reading more enjoyable without the visual disturbances various funding bodies to ensure that financial matters do not influence the choice to provide remedial lenses for our children. This is also a service that is not provided routinely in schools by government departments at this stage. We are very appreciative of this financial support. Our sponsors are listed at the back of this document. 9 Flow of the screening & referral process: Score under ELT Community Irlen Screeners go into classes and do a 10 questionnaire with students. From the scores on these No questionnaires, screeners decide on who to screen in more further detail. action. Score over 10 Child screened for ½ hour to 1 hour by Community Irlen Screener employed by ELT Screener identifies Screener identifies no No further visual issue visual issue action. Recheck again in 2years Referred to Child fitted with optometrist for optometric lenses if vision exam required Referred to Irlen Diagnostician for full Iren exam Child identified as needing corrective lenses – either Irlen, or Optometric, or both. Contact school and Lenses fitted and follow student progress provided to child. and achievement data. Child recalled again in 2 years for recheck. 10 5 Ngakuru Primary Rerewhakaaitu Primary School School Upper Atiamuri Kaingaroa
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