Talk:Irlen filters

This is a page that I created in order to improve the Dyslexia article. I removed a section here and made a short introduction for it. I know this page does not look very good, but if you are patient, I will make it better using IDA's information packet as a source. --Piechjo 15:22, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Ambiguous results
Are the findings still ambiguous? I know someone who uses this technique and it helps some dyslexic children a lot and very quickly, but others are not helped. Perhaps the issue is that it is not always a solution, rather than it is not known whether it works at all. Stephen B Streater (talk) 23:59, 17 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Actually, now I've read one of the references, I think the tinted lenses were not specifically Irlen certified. I'll look further, as the sceptical paper quoted is twenty years old. Stephen B Streater (talk) 00:06, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Are there more sources?
I see only two organizations cited now for any statements in the article. What well recognized secondary sources (published textbooks or practioners' handbooks on dyslexia) or what peer-reviewed professional journal articles are there on this subject? -- 17:06, 5 July 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by WeijiBaikeBianji (talk • contribs)

PEER REVIEWED RESEARCH more than 10 0 of these studies supporting the use of color ed overlays and lenses to treat th e perceptual processing difficulties associated with Irlen Syndrome are published in peer - reviewed academic and scientific journals, including the Journal of Learning Disabilities, Australian Journal of Special Education, Perceptual and Motor Skills, Austr alian Journal of Learning Disabilities, Journal of Clinical & Experimental Neuropsychology, Journal of Research in Reading, Behavioral Optometry, and Ophthalmological and Behavioral Optics, among others. This research has established a hereditary component of the disorder (Loew & Watson, 2012 Robinson, Foreman, Dear & Sparkes, 2004 ), a number of biochemical markers for problems associated with Irlen Syndrome (Robinson, Roberts, McGregor, Dunstan, & Butt, 1999; Robinson, McG regor, Roberts, Dunstan & Butt, 2001; Sparkes, Robinson, Dunstan, & Roberts, 2003), and differences between both the anatomy and functioning of brains of individuals with Irlen Syndrome (Chouinard, Zhou, Hrybousky, Kim, & Commine, 201 2 s, Jenkins, Bozoki, & Cao, 2011; Lewine, Davis, Provencal, Edgar, & Orrison, 1997; Riddell, Wilkins, & Hainline, 2006; Yellen & Schweller, 2009). The research has repeatedly documented efficacy of both colored overlays and spectral filters, as measured by improvements in a variety of reading skills (Bouldoukian, Wilkins, & Evans, 2002; Nobel, Orton, Irlen & Robinson, 2004; Park, Kim, Cho, Joo, 2012; Robinson & Foreman, 1999; Tyrrell, Holland, Dennis, & Wilkins, 1995; Williams, LeCluyse, & Rock Faucheux, 199 2; Wilkins, Evans, Brown, Busby, Wingfield, Jeanes & Bald, 1994 ), reduction in physical symptoms that include headaches, migraines, eye strain , fatigue, and light sensitivity (Barbolini, Lazzerini, Pini, Steiner, Del Cecchio, Migaldi, & Cavallini, 2009; Bu lmer, 1994; Chronicle & Wilkins, 1991; Huang et al., 2011; Wilkins & Wilkinson, 1991),  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.20.100.230 (talk) 16:55, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Robinson, Foreman, & Dear, 2000;
 * Huang, Zong, Wilkin

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"Irlen Syndrome affects approximately 50 percent of individuals with reading difficulties and dyslexia, 33 percent of those with attention difficulties such as ADHD, 33 percent with autism, up to 50 percent of those who have suffered a traumatic brain injury, whiplash or concussion, and approximately 12-14 percent of the general population. Standardised diagnostic procedures have been developed to individualise the colour selection. "

Elizabeth Liddle (talk) 18:04, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

discredited system
All the secondary sources say that these filters don't work (at least not the way it's claimed). The lead includes 7 cited sources supposedly backing up these claims, but none of those citations link to an online text that editors can verify. This looks fishy. Maybe information from Irlen syndrome could help. Leadwind (talk) 16:21, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

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Erroneous or fallacious measures of medical efficacies, or other scientific claims
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