Microsoft tool to help Dyslectics

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The company is releasing a new set of features for OneNote called “Learning Tools.” It’s an add-on that lives in your menu bar once it’s installed, giving students access to “advanced” dictation and an immersive reading mode.

Microsoft says that the tools should be helpful for people with dyslexia, because it includes several different things to assist with reading: speaking text aloud as the current word is highlighted, spacing out the letters to make them easier to follow, using a custom font called “Fluent Calibri” that Microsoft claims is easier to read, and parsing out both syllables or parts of sentences to clarify their sound and purpose.

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Dyslexia in Babies, detected with MRI

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Nadine Gaab, a researcher at Boston Children’s Hospital and her colleagues used an MRI technique that could isolate particular structures in the brain with children 1 year or younger in kids who had a parent or older sibling with dyslexia, which gives them a 50 percent chance of having dyslexia themselves, the researchers found noticeable differences in the fibers that connect two key language-processing centers of the brain.

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