Visual Stress - Hadleigh, Essex
Visual stress (also known as Meares Irlen syndrome) describes a group of symptoms associated with reading problems.
These may include:
- Movement of words in text
- Blurring of print
- Letters changing shape or size
- Patterns forming in print (described as 'rivers' or 'worms')
- Coloured fringes to letters or words
- Fatigue when reading
- Headaches
As you can imagine, these symptoms make reading a demading and often unpleasant experience, resulting in reluctant readers who tire quickly, misread words and skip/repeat lines when reading.
Colorimetry - using colour to improve reading is now available at Forbes Opticians to treat the symptoms of visual stress.
What can we do to help?
Precision tinted lenses, prescribed to your individual specifications using an intuitive colorimeter, can relieve the symptoms of visual stress.
The colorimeter can choose from a range of 100,000 different colours to identify the precise colour that reduces your symptoms to an absolute minimum.
Children can gain a reading year in a matter of weeks and reluctant readers discover reading for pleasure.