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ONE thing that Chris Quickfall has learned in his time is that, when you’re training someone with a disability, the disability shouldn’t dominate the process.

Quickfall set up Invate in 2006, not long after he was diagnosed with dyslexia, in a bid to offer technologies to help disabled people in education and employment.

“It’s one of the largest assistive technology companies in the North East now”, he said. “But this stuff isn’t a magic box. Training is the key to unlocking the technology.

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Specially tinted lenses originally developed for color blindness are helping some U.S. dyslexics read faster and see words more clearly, confirming the claims of the lenses’ British inventor and the company that started selling them here in September.

As soon as Max Klinger, a Miami first-grader recently diagnosed with dyslexia, got glasses with the special lenses, “all he wanted to do is read,” his mother Michelle Klinger said. “He told me the letters stopped moving; they stopped popping out for him. He went from a child who hated reading to asking, ‘Can we go buy chapter books?'”

Although Max, 6, has worn the lenses only a month, “I see a huge difference,” his mother said Tuesday. “His behavior is completely different. I see a confident child, excited to go to school, excited to read. I attribute it to the glasses. That’s the only change we’ve made.”

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We rarely stop to think about it, but reading is an amazing accomplishment. It turns markings on a page or a screen into coherent thoughts. It’s a complicated process: The eyes see a procession of letters, and the brain turns them into words.

The reading process is challenging for people with dyslexia. The disorder isn’t well understood, but there seems to be a communication breakdown between the eyes and the brain. Some people with dyslexia have trouble associating letters with sounds and words. Others say that words and letters look blurry, distorted or jumbled.

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