The treatment of dyslexia with photochromatic therapy

Abstract

Dyslexia is one of the disorders with a greater prevalence among the group of thelearning disorders. With the passing years many studies (observations) have been madeto explain the causes of dyslexia and to show the newest interventions in this field. Thiswork's purpose is to show one of the methods which improve the ability of the dyslexic children to read, and concretely to increase the speed of reading in this target group.This method presented in this study is completely new and unexplored by specialists who deal with dyslexic children in Albania. The intervention analyzed in this study is called photochromatic therapy. Photochromatic therapy includes two forms of treatment thatare: 1) treatment by photochromatic lens; 2) treatment by colour overlays which have thesame effect as photochromatic lens.Results have shown the use of the colour overlays has increased the speed of reading among dyslexic children. The recommendations in this work offer a new method to treat dyslexic children with the aim to draw specific programs and books with colour pages for this group of children.Key terms of this paper are: dyslexia, colour overlays, reading speed test, Meares-Irlen syndrome