Advice for Parents
It can be worrying and scary when your child is having difficulty reading. Often a child will feel stressed and anxious and may exhibit behavioural issues in reaction to low self esteem.
Dyslexia or reading issues do not mean your child is less intelligent or damaged. Dyslexia is a neurological difference. This means the brain works in a different way from most people's brains, and that can come with advantages as well as disadvantages.
Your child might need to learn differently from other children or may have problems such as impaired visuomotor control that can be diagnosed and treated to help them reach their potential.
If you would like to talk to us about assessing your child for visual problems please send us an email or send us a message on Facebook.

Frequently asked questions
What are the signs my child might be suffering from visual problems?
What are the signs my child might have dyslexia?
The most obvious sign of dyslexia is slow reading progress. Other signs include visual symptoms, difficulty with learning phonics, poor spelling, memory difficulties and slow processing. Extra teaching may be making only a very small difference.
How can I help my child with reading?
Should I give my child fish oil Omega-3 supplements?
Should I take my child to an optician?
I have been told that dyslexia is not visual. Are coloured filters a placebo?
You have to see to be able to read, so it is ridiculous to disregard the importance of visual processing in reading. There is a considerable amount of research that clearly demonstrates that treating visual symptoms with appropriate coloured filters can often help these children to read.
What should I talk to my child's school/teacher about?
You should make sure you discuss your child's problems with their teacher and the school's special educational needs coordinator (SENCO). Then you should see that the school is following recommendations made by the SENCO, any dyslexia tutor or us.
Why don't you do dyslexia testing?
The definition of dyslexia has becoming increasingly broad and the term dyslexia covers a whole host of difficulties. The term dyslexia now implies a general learning difficulty, which it isn’t.
Diagnosing dyslexia used to involve measuring a person's general IQ/Ability compared with their ability to read and spell. If their general IQ/ability was significantly higher than their ability to read and spell a diagnosis of dyslexia could be given.
Diagnosing dyslexia now involves a wide range of tests and showing significant differences in ability in any of the areas can allow a diagnosis of dyslexia. This means that the tests now identify that there is a problem rather than identifying what it is.
The diagnosis of dyslexia itself does not indicate how a child can be helped and no longer secures them any extra assistance in school or additional time in exams.The DRT and most Local Education Authorities believe that the best approach is to determine the individual child’s needs and then make recommendations based on their specific needs.
That’s why we don’t focus on the diagnosis of dyslexia. We focus on identifying the specific problems that are causing the child to experience difficulties with reading and providing solutions, such as coloured filters, omega 3 supplements and alternative teaching methods to counter these problems.