Irlen Syndrome may be the cause of a range of difficulties related to spatial awareness and depth perception. The following symptoms can be treated with the Irlen® Method of precision tinted filters worn as glasses or contact lenses:
- General difficulty with spatial awareness.
- Lack of perspective and three-dimension in the environment.
- Problems with judging heights, distances, and speeds.
- Being clumsy or accident prone.
- Difficulty catching a ball.
- Difficulty with stairs: need to holding on, tripping up.
- Difficulty with escalators: hesitating to get on or off, dizziness.
- Over cautiousness when driving, overtaking, parking.
- Difficulty walking in a straight line, walking into people.
- Tripping up.
- Running into furniture or doorways accidentally.
- Difficulty with heights or ladders.
- Knocking things over or dropping things easily.