On the occasion of DYS Day (dyslexia, dysphasia, dyspraxia) on October 9, Why Doctor collected the testimony of a dyslexic woman who uses new luminous material to correct her reading difficulties.
– Why Doctor: Marie-Hélène, you are a dental surgeon in Brittany and you use a lamp that corrects reading disorders. What does this device bring when you are dyslexic?
We simply read better. This facilitates reading, fluidity and therefore understanding It is a lamp that is kept on, there is a way to position it in relation to the book and which sends a light which has the particularity of adapting vision brain function in dyslexics.
– When and how were you diagnosed?
It was a chance discovery. When I was a child it was not diagnosed, as I was rather toned I overcame the difficulties and one could even already consider me as a great reader. But when my son was 16, we wanted to check whether or not he was dyslexic… and I, who accompanied him for this test, gave the same answers as him!
– You studied medicine… This disorder must have penalized you. He hadn’t appeared at that time?
No, it hadn’t appeared, I had a certain energy that allowed me to compensate. In this disorder we are really in compensation techniques. You can drive very well in reverse and get by in life even though it’s so much better in forward! In fact, being dyslexic is not necessarily a problem. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s luck, but it’s a very interesting difference
– With this device, how do we measure the improvement?
There are two things that are measured in reading, it’s reading speed and comprehension. Obviously what we measure most easily is reading speed. But personally, I can’t say precisely what it makes me gain in reading speed because I use other speed reading techniques at the same time which can interfere.
But to explain what it really changes, I will say that it’s like when, when you are a child and you have to read aloud in front of the whole class, if you are too focused on the reading, you can lose the meaning of what we read, the thread of the story in a way. Well since I started using this lamp, I have had the feeling that my eyes go from word to word without difficulty like goats from rock to rock in a mountain and that gives the words more taste. It brings relief to reading and above all it brings something that cannot be measured, it is the pleasure of reading!
– Is this lamp easy to use?
I started using it without even reading the manual! I didn’t want to be influenced and conditioned by the technology used and I didn’t want to be in a sort of placebo effect! I found the right settings on my own immediately!
– Would you say that this material constitutes a revolution for dyslexics?
For me, it’s a revolution! For little ones, I can’t say, because there is the problem of being able to have the lamp everywhere they need to read, especially at school.
– Can this dispense with other accompaniments?
In first intention, and in particular to be certain of the diagnosis, it is of course necessary to go through the speech therapist. And most of those who equip themselves with this device are already followed by these specialists.
.
