Symptoms associated with Irlen syndrome

Light sensitivity

• Problems with glare, fluorescent lights, sunlight and/or night driving.
• Difficulty and discomfort concentrating when working under bright or fluorescent lights.

• Difficulty reading from high gloss white paper,or a white board.
• The page may appear too bright and uncomfortable.

• Difficulty reading print, numbers or musical notation
• Problems may include print that shifts, shakes, moves, doubles, disappears and is difficult to perceive.

• Inability to read several words as a group.
• This makes it difficult to skim or speed read, creating problems with tracking and identifying words.

• Difficulty in concentrating when reading, listening or doing school work.
• May take frequent breaks, look away, become restless, fidgety or tired.

• Clumsy and may have difficulty catching balls.
• Inability to judge distances accurately, especially when driving.
• Uncertain when using escalators, stairs or revolving doors.
  

• Headache, especially when undertaking visual tasks
• Fatique at the end of the day
• Performance deteriorates over time