DYSLEXIA RESEARCH

Dyslexia is a neurodiversity ‘understood as a different way of feeling, thinking and communicating, therefore, it is used to indicate a complex neurologically-based cognitive condition’. In the specific case of dyslexia, this neurodiversity is manifested by a difficulty in decoding text.

There are many tools that help people with dyslexia to study and improve their performance. In the field of lighting technology, there are two different case studies of lamps for dyslexic people: the Lili Lamp and the Lexilight. This lamps, thanks to an intermittent light, create a fictitious dominant eye that makes the mirror effect disappear. This technology, although useful, is however inaccessible to a large target group of individuals, as it is very expensive.

Our idea is therefore to investigate the reasons behind the study and try to find a low-budget technology that allows everyone, people with and without dyslexia, to improve the quality of study time. Through research, we discovered “Many children report extreme sensitivity to bright, glaring lights; this can result in a tendency to skip words and lines as they read, to miss the mark, become fatigued and distracted, and become restless and nervous, with signs of itching or tearing in the eyes, headaches and other discomforts. They prefer to read in soft, indirect or natural light...’ (Le aquile sono nate per volare).

Investigating this sensitivity, it was discovered that these preferences of people with dyslexia seem to derive from the so-called ‘Irlen syndrome’ or ‘stroboscopic sensitivity’ visual distortion related to excessive sensitivity to certain wavelengths, alleviated by the use of certain coloured lenses. In the case of our analysis, it seems appropriate to study the symptoms associated with this disorder, since it is very common in dyslexic persons, but also found in non-neurodivergent subjects.

In particular, we focus on one aspect, that of reading headaches with fluorescent light or strong glare, which would exclude in the subjects under analysis the use of luminous devices with different frequencies, such as the two lamps taken as case studies.

U S E R S

Dislexia is a difficult disorder to diagnose. There are meny factor that the health care practitioner review to diagnose the disorder. This may include: family history, home life, neurological test , oral lenguage skill, reading and language abilities

In addition, there is the IQ test to rule out mental retardation. In fact, a person with dyslexia must have an intelligence in the normal range or higher than