E-books and dyslexia

[Lip Service]

A surprising finding, the number of words on a given line can help improve dyslexia sufferers.

On e-readers this setting can be easily changed to suit the reader

http://www.medgadget.com/2013/09/e-readers-more-beneficial-for-dysl...

[Countryphyl]

Interesting article. Thanks.

[Dazzling Zoomer Gal Diana]

Thank you for this article LS. I suffer from marginal dyslexia and I have found that when working online I read and write faster  and with better clarity when the font is considerably bigger.  Mind, there is the issue of eyesight and glasses - too!

Again, great post.

[Mandy Muffin]

I saw an interview on TV on this finding.  It makes sense.  It seems people skip words when they read and for the most part the typical reader just fills in the blanks and gets the meaning of the text.  However, the person with dyslexia can't do the same.  The larger type helps to read every word. 

[Lip Service]

Even though we are taught to read letter by letter, in practice that is not how our brain works. There are many examples that the process is a lot more complex than that.

For example in the following commonly circulated example, not a single word is correct yet most people can "read" (dyslexic people may have more problems with it)

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteers be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

For me e-books have an advantage which is the instant look up of words in the dictionary. Even though English is not my native language, I don't find myself needing to use this feature often, but when I do it is a most enjoyable part of the reading experience. When I was growing up, whenever I asked my father the meaning of a word, he would make me pull out the (heavy) dictionary and look it up myself, then tell him what I learned. I did not care much for his method, for one thing it interrupted the flow of the reading too much.

[Flowergram]

Thanks for the info - very interesting and lots of new discoveries being made in the medical field.  Good website.