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 hold on, tripping up
- Difficulty with escalators: hesitating to get on or off, dizziness
- Over cautiousness with 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