emphasizing the differences between letters reminded about the hand writing recognition on Palm.
Dyslexie: A typeface for dyslexics
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#42This is very anecdotal naturally. But I am a dyslexic and it was really a struggle for me as a little kid. I don't like reading very much because it is a frustrating endeavor. I like information, I like thinking, and I guess I have favored smaller condensed pieces when reading. Perhaps why I love this website I can attest though that upon seeing the paragraph written at the end of the video that the text was much eas…
As a non-dyslexic, I was surprised how much easier this font was to read. Do you see a link to the typeface?
it felt very natural, and, being non-dyslexic as well, i caught myself waiting for it to become dyslexic distorted...
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#43The font is rendered via HTML5's canvas, incidentally.
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#44Does the kindle support custom fonts? It would be cool if one could experiment with this and other modern fonts focusing on readibility
Exactly what I was thinking. They'd be a good market for this kind of thing.
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#45A few questions for dyslexics: 1) Is it consistent? Do you have have trouble with the same letters/letter pairings? Or do different words tend to have different effects? 2) Normal readers tend to read the "word" and not the individual letters. Do/Can dyslexics do the same? As an example, if for instance dyslexics commonly were to transpose the "o" and "u" combination "ou" to "uo" I'm wondering if dyslexics read the j…
Question 1 I find the font easier to read, but I became and avid reader after getting diagnosed and given private reading lessons in the 2nd grade (circa 1977). I suspect I retrained by brain with constant reading from that point onward. By contrast, my sister who is 11 years older didn't get diagnosed young, and still struggles to read. Though she can read these days, she has a strong preference for audiobooks. When…
"When learning to read, dyslexics read in "chunks" and by word shape - basically seeing the word as whole, not the individual letters. I recall the uneven scanning."
I've wondered if dyslexia could be mitigated/cured by modifying a text reader to pulse the letters in sequence, thus giving the brain something to latch on to. Perhaps tie it in with an eye tracker. Gradually, you could reduce the strength of the pulse until they are reading normally, perhaps maybe. This idea was based on a theory that I heard that dyslexia may fundamentally stem from a timing issue in the brain; well, perhaps we could train that directly.
I have nobody to try this on, though, so I haven't done anything with it.
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#46This is very anecdotal naturally. But I am a dyslexic and it was really a struggle for me as a little kid. I don't like reading very much because it is a frustrating endeavor. I like information, I like thinking, and I guess I have favored smaller condensed pieces when reading. Perhaps why I love this website I can attest though that upon seeing the paragraph written at the end of the video that the text was much eas…
I don't understand why/how some of the changes they've made would help dyslexics immediately . Perhaps you could explain. It seems like most of the changes were arbitrary (e.g. rotation, making the lower parts bolder) and designed to make two otherwise similar characters distinct. Wouldn't that require a learning period, to figure out which characters were changed in which ways? If you don't know (reflexively from me…
In the video, they explain it as embracing the conception of the letters as being 3d objects. The added weight in the lower parts would intuitively anchor that letter in that orientation. Perhaps a 'j' should be tilted due to its asymmetry.
As for my $.02, I think the mix-ups often occur in real-time due to proximity. Making the symbols distinct would perhaps lessen the likelihood that the brain will try to identify those conceptual objects as a unity when they are near one another.
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#47warning: dont visit the nextweb.com with an ipad, they use some horrible horrible swipe/touch/die suckware, go to the source instead http://www.studiostudio.nl/en/project-dyslexie/
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#48A few questions for dyslexics: 1) Is it consistent? Do you have have trouble with the same letters/letter pairings? Or do different words tend to have different effects? 2) Normal readers tend to read the "word" and not the individual letters. Do/Can dyslexics do the same? As an example, if for instance dyslexics commonly were to transpose the "o" and "u" combination "ou" to "uo" I'm wondering if dyslexics read the j…
I'm going to say no. I'm dyslexic and dysgraphic and I deal with it, but it's only after many years of practice and by doing most of my writing on a keyboard. (I'm still not so good with written numbers.)
The best way I've heard it explained is that the word CAT doesn't look like a cat. A quick google search found this. http://dyslexiavictoria.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/dyslexic-pr...
"Also the alphabet is a type of abstract concept that Dyslexics have a frustrating time trying to learn because unless the letters are part of a word they don’t mean anything other than sounds. Dyslexics need concrete real images that can be connected to symbols such as words and numerals. “C – A – T” are sounds but do not bring up any images of real things. The word “CAT” however can be imagined."
Showing a kid the wrong spelling will only confuse them. (Writing was already confusing.) I was told growing up that my mind was trying really hard to find a cat in the letters, it flipped them around, held them upside down, put them on top of each other, and nothing looks like a cat. You don't actually see anything move (common question) but I used to stare at words trying to make sense of them. I don't know enough about cognition to tell you actually how it works.
I think if you can short circuit some of these wasted cycles it might help dyslexic kids pick up on what reading and writing actually is a bit faster. I'd give the font a try but they're using some sort of vector JS based font rendering (Cufon) and I don't know how to get that back to a ttf. But I doubt it would have much of an effect on myself anyway as I've learned how to read and write a long time ago.
Just my 2c
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#49A few questions for dyslexics: 1) Is it consistent? Do you have have trouble with the same letters/letter pairings? Or do different words tend to have different effects? 2) Normal readers tend to read the "word" and not the individual letters. Do/Can dyslexics do the same? As an example, if for instance dyslexics commonly were to transpose the "o" and "u" combination "ou" to "uo" I'm wondering if dyslexics read the j…
Question 1 I find the font easier to read, but I became and avid reader after getting diagnosed and given private reading lessons in the 2nd grade (circa 1977). I suspect I retrained by brain with constant reading from that point onward. By contrast, my sister who is 11 years older didn't get diagnosed young, and still struggles to read. Though she can read these days, she has a strong preference for audiobooks. When…
Answer "right / left" question is not automatic. I always have to think. I imagine pointing from my shoulder through my arm in the direction I'm thinking. (Perhaps every one does this.) I just know there's a small mental pause.
Interesting, I have that problem as well, also with compass directions (I often have to visualize a map to be sure I know whether I want to go "east" or "west" on a road. Also mentioned elsewhere on this page I transpose numbers a lot. I have no trouble reading though, and was a fairly avid reader when I was younger (don't have time for pure reading for pleasure much these days).
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#50A similar idea is DPCustomMono2, a font adapted by "Distributed Proofreaders" project to make proofreading for mistakes easier. It's not the prettiest font, but it is effective.