09/21/2021
Are your glasses not correcting blurriness or other irritating visual disturbances? Irlen may be the reason. Set up a consult today!
VISUAL PROCESSING OF WHAT WE SEE INVOLVES BOTH OUR EYES AND BRAIN. If our eyes are not functioning correctly, then the image received by the retina and transmitted to the brain is not going to be correct. An ophthalmologist or optometrist will usually prescribe corrective lenses to correct the image e.g. reading glasses correct the EYE problem that is making words look blurry BUT some people who experience blurriness when reading have PERFECT eyesight. So for them, prescription lenses CANNOT do anything to make it clearer. So there must be something else that is causing the words to appear blurry. This suggests that their brain is having difficulty PROCESSING the visual signals that it is receiving from the eyes. People with Irlen Syndrome often have perfect eyesight but they experience blurring of words, distortion of print and many other difficulties when reading that CANNOT be explained by problems with their eyes. Some people with Irlen Syndrome DO need optometric corrective lenses, but these do not remove their processing difficulties so those lenses are combined with their Irlen tint, which modifies the light entering the eyes. Irlen lenses ARE NOT correcting a problem with the eyes, but ARE correcting problems with the brain's ability to successfully PROCESS the signals from the eyes. Irlen lenses are simply FILTERS that modify the parts of the light that are interfering with their VISUAL PROCESSING.
