LED Lighting: Positively Impacting Your Child’s Education

The first thing that comes to mind when thinking of your child’s education is the quality of teaching.  But what about the environment your child learns in?  It is just as important as a good school or a good teacher.  Incandescent lighting is known to produce chalkboard glare and flickering strobe-like effects, which negatively impact your child’s ability to learn.  Children with learning disabilities, especially autism spectrum disorder (ASD), can be even more affected by these lighting issues.  For children with ASD, controlling the learning environment and keeping it consistent is important to promoting their development.

Those with ASD are prone to visual and auditory sensitivities which cause them to be hyper-reactive to environmental cues, such as lighting and sound.  Perceiving fluorescent lighting cycles as having a strobe-like effect can also trigger an increase in seizure activity from children with ASD.  Both for children with ASD and without, focus is an important factor in learning retention.  Incandescent lighting, with its harsh glare, can cause headaches and even migraines.  This adverse effect can lead to agitation; especially in those with ASD, who can often have a lack of skill in interacting with others and who are sensitive to environmental triggers which detract from managing learning disabilities. 

New Tek Partners offers an alternative to the strobe-like effect of fluorescent lights in the LED GREEN light tube.  Casting a calm, natural light, this LED light tube eliminates the inconvenient and potentially harmful flickering.  Conventional fluorescent lights utilize a ballast to create the voltage and current necessary to start and illuminate the light.  The “humming” sound so often associated with fluorescent lights is caused by this ballast.  Fortunately, New Tek Partner’s LED GREEN light tube has no need for ballasts, thus eliminating noise interference and keeping the environment in your children’s classroom free of noisy lighting.  When exploring your child’s classroom for the first time, be sure to notice the lighting and consider what effects it can have on your children’s health and learning ability.

Listen to a teacher explain the benefit LED lighting has had in her classroom: