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Special pen scanners for dyslexic children are currently undergoing free trials in Maltese schools
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New dyslexia app
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West Branch senior Cassie Madison was presented with the Congressional App Challenge award by U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson. Madison, shown with Johnson, created Dysulator, to help students with dyslexia, like herself. She created the app through Android Studio using kotlin code. Madison hopes “parents and teachers can use this app to understand dyslexics and make a positive change in our future.” Her app has three main components: an dyslexia tab, an interactive game simulator and a help and support tab. The game simulator attempts to recreate how a dyslexic person would see and feel throughout a game. Madison is one of four students from Ohio who were selected as winners.
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Glory for comic sans after all?
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Who would have known but now after all the critique on Comic Sans (the font) it turns out there may be a good use for it with children with dyslexia.
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Math for dyslectics
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The website homeschooling with dyslexia provides some tips about teaching math to students with dyslexia
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Help from Croatia for Dyslexia
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From Croatia comes an app that helps people with dyslexia to read better. It breaks words down in smaller segments and highlights them.
It does not seem to be out in anglophone languages but that will be coming soon.
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Teenager develops a reading aloud app
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A Coeur d’Alene High School junior has created a text-to-audio app that started as a way to help his brother pass organic chemistry.
Morgan Dixon, 17, launched Outloud Reader a month ago. About 10 students in fourth and fifth grades who have dyslexia are now using it for studies at Sorensen Magnet School for the Arts and Humanities in Coeur d’Alene.
“My brother was at WSU and working 60 hours a week at a winery with a bunch of hard classes like organic chemistry,” Dixon said. “He wanted to make his book into an audio version, or just any of his books, so he told me that idea, and it started growing from that.”
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