hanks for the clarification, SueB. You said: "Visual problems are rarely responsible for learning difficulties." You're right, in my opinion. It is not that he visual problem is responsible for the dyslexia. But it is responsible for making reading more difficult. I still stick to what I said earlier in response to Mark Cohen's quoted definition of dyslexia.

"I still see dyslexia as the same. The letter reversals are not a vision problem, they are the way the brain processes what is seen. The image is the same but my brain puts a different spin on the image and chops and changes that spin - admittedly in a fairly predictable manner, e.g. left-right reversals or up-down reversals."

I do however have an associated vision problem, SSS, which exacerbates the problems I have with dyslexia and which have been found to occur in a reasonable percentage of dyslexics. It doesn't help at all to have the print jiggling about, "shimmying like my sister Kate" (there that put the musical reference back into this thread   :-)    ) and making it hard to keep track of which word I am reading and which line of text I was up to.   When you add the jiggling print problem to the dyslexia problem I sometimes wonder how I managed to read at all.

The answer is motivation. My family are great lovers of reading and I am too. That helped a lot. Also my family and my infants school teachers were all very loving and supportive of my difficulties even though there was no scientific name for what I was experiencing back in the early 60's as far as I know. I was never diagnosed with dyslexia and only discovered that there was a name for my problems when I read British actress, Susan Hampshire's book about her own difficulties.   That was in the mid '80's, i.e when I was in my mid '30's and still studying part time while working full time as a librarian.

So, I can only be extremely grateful for the coloured lenses because they have cut my difficulties down to a manageable level, and allowed me to work more effectively on my dyslexia.

Also, I wouldn't discount the exercises. I have found that playing computer games has helped me to become more reactive in visual left-right situations. Having to hit the left and right arrow keys in a fast, yet calculated sequence seems to have trained my brain into recognising left and right a bit more quickly, although if someone verbally instructed me to use my left hand or turn left I would still have to do the mental gymnastics to make sure I was doing it correctly.

Helen