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The Age of Comprehension

We are no longer in The Age of Information. We are now in The Age of Information Overload and beginning The Age of Comprehension.

Dyslexia is commonly described as a comprehension disorder where a person miscues the identity or sequence of letters and or numbers resulting in a reduced ability to read and comprehend words. Dyslexia is normally viewed as a biological condition resulting from neural pathways improperly transmitting information.

Induced Dyslexia is a comprehension disorder caused by misaligned and/or mis-prescribed glasses, primarily progressive glasses.

Progressive glasses, unlike single-vision lenses, have a continuous range of magnification in the lower half of the lens that allows the wearer to see close objects from the graduated reduction in viewing magnification. To see "clearly" the wearer moves their head to face the object, and then raises or lowers the horizontal angle of their head to match the magnification necessary to being the object into focus.

As you read these words on your electronic display (or printed on paper) you likely fail to realize that the biology that lets you see words has NOT changed fro that of our "caveman ancestors" in over 5000 years. The perceptual skill that lets you see rocks, trees, clouds, the sky, plants, and animas evolved to let you interpret the coded symbols we subconsciously compile into words and concepts.

Comprehension is an art, but reading is a use of vision that was NOT originally in our evolutionary makeup. Instead we have taken our binary perspective of "us versus them" or "food versus predator" and refined that into a multiplicity of terms and labels to give "airy nothingness a local habitation and a name" which we call words.

While progressive glasses create specific areas of clear vision, at the same time they inherently reduce peripheral vision. Comprehension, however, is also dependent upon peripheral vision which progressive glasses inadvertently minimize with the result being Induced Dyslexia.

This page is dedicated to helping g people overcome that problem.