Posted: Jan 07, 2011 4:08 pm
Doubtdispelled wrote:
Hajime, I'm glad to see you are getting help. Has anyone recommended you try coloured overlays for reading, seeing an optometrist to eliminate the possibility of sight inconsistencies being a factor (as with my son - his eyes do not 'track' consistently), or for that matter, Toe-by-Toe itself or something similar?
I'm not sure the overlays make too much difference. I know that it's easier for me to read in dim light. I have the backlight on my mac on the second bar, I dunno how unusual that is.
I need to sort out an appointment at an optometrist really. It seems a little redundant now though, but uni will pay for it if I go whilst at uni.
I've never heard of Toe-by-Toe to be honest.
The single greatest help for me has been audiobooks. Listening to them alongside reading seems to ingrain written words to the sound they make better than anything else and I only wish I'd had this as a kid. So, I can recommend that.
It also took me SO LONG to find books that interested me enough to read them for longer than 10 mins. I read The Selfish Gene cover to cover in the first year of uni in the space of about 2 months, which is mind-blowing for someone like me.