*does the dance of reduced headaches*
A long-time LJ friend of ours just posted the link to the most wonderful bit to freeware that is going to make my life (and probably Emma's too) so much more comfortable.
Musatcha Irlen FilterNow, a lot of you might not know what Irlen filters are. In short, they're coloured filters that people use if they have visual sensitivities, often ( Read more... )
Musatcha Irlen FilterNow, a lot of you might not know what Irlen filters are. In short, they're coloured filters that people use if they have visual sensitivities, often ( Read more... )
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Actually, I think it's really brilliant these things are being identified. When I was at school, no one had heard of Asperger's, and Emma was never picked up as being dyslexic. And forty years ago, when Em's dad was at school, he used to get the cane for writing with his left hand. We've come a long way towards understanding that different people are wired differently, and learn from and filter the world in different ways. The brilliance of Irlen filters is that they're so damn simple. The reason the actual glasses are expensive is to do with the patent, owned by some woman in America. Only people trained and licensed by her can prescribe them, so practitioners are scarce and consultations and the actual lens tinting is out of our price range.
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Shocking. *gives American money grubbers the stink eye*
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The problem Emma had with the overlays is that her problem isn't so much with the reading, it's with the writing, and she can't write and use an overlay at the same time. The glasses would have got around that, but they were way too expensive.
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I get wicked migraines, and I'm tempted to give this a shot. Thing is, I also do some graphic design and photography work as part of my job...I wonder how this might affect how I see that. Hm.
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Thank you so much!
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You might have to play around a bit and work out what tint works best for you. I already knew that greys and blues worked best for me, which you can see if you look at shadowfiction, which I created and stylised over a year ago, with my own comfort in mind. Everything I look at for a long time ends up either black or grey or blue, if I can make it that way. You might find blues work for you, too, or you might find out reds, or greens, or even oranges are what helps. You can tweak the opacity, too, from being just an almost imperceptible tint over everything, to being almost completely shades of you chosen colour.
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This, while not as good for the exact right shade, I have found has helped anyway, and I'm on my second prescription of tinted on the cheap glasses. Of course, it helps that I was in high school before this was figured out. One of the reasons I knew when I'd found the right shades was that it was amazingly similar to the tinted sunglasses I kept buying. *grins* Hope that idea might help you and your daughter.
-m
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Getting Emma's glasses tinted would have been very expensive for more than one reason, the main one being that the Transitions coating was incompatible with the Irlen tinting. She would have had to get new, plain lenses to be coated by the Irlen clinic. The other issue is that she's an artist; she does a lot of digital painting, and she wouldn't have been able to wear the tinted lenses and work on her art at the same time.
When she needs a new prescription we may think about getting the plain lenses and a new set of frames and getting them tinted, so that she can switch between the two. We'll have to wait a while, though; both of us are unemployed/pensioners, and the government program only finds for a new set of glasses every two years. It's not been long enough since our last pairs.
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As for the art, a very light coat, in the right colour doesn't seem to interfere for me.
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