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  Susan Hughes MA Certified Irlen diagnostician  and director of Irlen Visions, was a teacher  in Chico Unified School District for 23 years.

She became a screener for Irlen syndrome in 1988 after three of her children tested positive for SSS and benefited from glasses with spectral filters. 

She was told her 14 year old son  was lazy and poorly motivated. After wearing the glasses for six months he was moved into the gifted program. At age 24 he received an honors degree in Engineering from Northeastern University in Massachusetts, and at age 28 his Masters in engineering , all wearing his glasses.

Her oldest daughter was a special education student . She received the glasses while struggling in college, and went on to complete her degree in social work with a 3.5 GPA. She has been a successful social worker for Children's Services for many years.

Susan screened  students and adults in the Chico area for many years . During the last two years of her teaching she was released for a half day a week to screen students in her school. By the end of the two years there were 90 students in the school using the overlays and more than 15 wearing the glasses, including a few parents.

Susan became an Irlen trained diagnostician in 1999 after retiring from teaching.

As well as Irlen Visions in Chico, Susan frequently travels in Oregon, Nevada and Hawaii and  N California. She has worked with clients who have reading problems, light sensitivity, headaches and migraines and ADD/HD.   She finds it also benefits students who can read but hate to read,  are off task and distractible , or are not working to potential.

 In recent years she has  found Irlen spectral filters have benefited clients with  Asperger's Syndrome, autism, dyslexia, headaches and migraines, anxiety and depression, head injuries, and other medical conditions with perceptual disorders.

 She works with schools, colleges, and adult literacy groups. For several years she has been working  with at-risk youth in Juvenile services and people in addiction recovery.