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High Tech start up for Dyslexia

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OrCam has developed a computer vision device that can be mounted on glasses and is designed to help visually impaired people, the blind, dyslexics, and those who tire easily of reading. The device includes a miniature video camera, a processing unit, and a rechargeable power unit, and uses an algorithm developed by the company through which the device can read texts. Similarly, the device knows how to identify products, colors, and currency. The device can also recognize up to 100 people’s faces, which the user enters into the device.This allows the device user to identify family members, friends, and colleagues. The information is transmitted almost immediately by voice.

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search with dyslexia, a challenge

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As many as 20% of English speakers have dyslexia, a language disability that impacts reading and spelling. Web search is an important modern literacy skill, yet the accessibility of this language-centric endeavor to people with dyslexia is largely unexplored. We interviewed ten adults with dyslexia and conducted an online survey with 81 dyslexic and 80 non-dyslexic adults, in which participants described challenges they face in various stages of web search

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Misspelled

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Here is a gamer who came up with a great little browser app that highlights misspelled words. Here is what he tells us:

Misspelled is great for me because it highlights whatever word I have spelled incorrectly and when clicked on will open a window offering words that I might be what I was trying to type. One of the things I do is jumble or mix letters within a word but half the time I look at what I have typed, it will appear correct to me as long as it has the right letters and isn’t too bad. It can be very frustration. By highlighting the word, it points out my errors making them easier to find.

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