First the Bad News:

In recent years, studies with Magnetic Resonance Scanners have found that:

• • • • • • • • Dyslexic people use different parts of their brains when they read compared to “normal people”.
              • Dyslexic people use a larger portion of their brain’s capacity in reading and
              • performing visual tasks compared to “normal people”.
              • The parts of the brain of a dyslexic person are in overdrive and working much harder compared to “normal people”.

Now the Good News :

Dr Daniel Amen, is a psychiatrist who has done thousands of brain images. He did a brain scan of many Irlen people, with and without their lenses. When he got this result he said it was “pretty amazing”.

Without the filters, there are many parts of the brain that are “hot”, many more than is the case for a “normal person” With the filters the brain is “normalized”.

He said that “to a highly significant degree,” the lenses

• • • ·increased activity in the cerebellum, an area that takes in new
    • information (e.g./ reading comprehension) and
    • ·decreased areas of stimulation and stress in the brain’s emotional and visual processing centres (calming effect).

The lenses help to balance brain function.