Through Dorine Goth
Published on 11 Feb 21 at 10:32
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Make reading easier for dyslexic students. Monday February 8, 2021, ten colleges of Seine-Saint-Denis were equipped with five Lexilight lamps each “to help college girls and college students dyslexic to read correctly ”.
Ten experimental colleges
“According to the WHO, 10% of the world’s population is dyslexic, an average of one to four dyslexic students per class. Now the waiting time to have an appointment with a speech therapist takes on average two years in Seine-Saint-Denis“, Explains the Department. To overcome this difficulty, the departmental council is experimenting with the Lexilight lamp.
“The college is an essential stage of the school career. But it can be hard to keep up when you have dyslexia. Equipping some of our colleges with Lexilight lamps, a remarkable French innovation, is providing an initial response to the difficulties encountered by certain children, ”explains Department President Stéphane Troussel.
The lamps are for the moment present at the colleges Henri Wallon in Aubervilliers, Jean Lurçat in Saint-Denis, Jean Vilar in La Courneuve, Jean Vigo in Epinay-sur-Seine, Jorissen in Drancy, René Descartes in Tremblay-en-France, Gustave Courbet in Romainville, Lenain de Tillemont in Montreuil, Honoré de Balzac in Neuilly sur Marne and Pablo Neruda in Gagny.
Create a dominant eye
Dyslexia usually results in a reading disability. People with dyslexia have two dominant eyes which simultaneously send two different pieces of information to the brain. ”
It is this confusion that creates mirror images and disrupts reading (for example, b and d are confused). This is what Lexilight corrects by allowing the brain to process information as if it came from a single dominant eye, ”explains Lexilight.
Disappearance of mirror images
The mirror images disappear thanks to the diffusion of pulsed and modulated light with LED diodes. Then, two dials allow the user to adjust the pulse and modulation of the wave. “Once the lamp is adjusted, the mirror images disappear and reading is facilitated”, presents the Department.
“We are convinced that our Lexilight lamp will allow dyslexic middle school students to follow lessons in better conditions. We hope in this way to contribute, at our level, to better equality of opportunity between dyslexic students and their non-dyslexic peers, ”says Paola Bourdon, head of partnerships at Lexilife.
Manufactured in Brittany, by the company L’atelier du Courier, Lexilight lamps are distributed today at 800 clients, including health professionals. In Seine-Saint-Denis, the total cost of the experiment for the Department is 24 900 euros, for purchasing lamps and training teachers.
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