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trønderen19-Jan-23 10:06
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kalberts19-Jan-23 10:38
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Are there any independent studies at all suggesting that the typeface design is helping dyslectics overcome their problems?

I never heard about it before (although that does not mean it it not true!). What I certainly have heard, from several sources, is that kids who learn to read not by letters, but by entire word symbols (learning to break words down into individual letters long after they learn to read) have a much lower dyslexia frequency than those who learn to read by individual letters.

One of my friends learned to read that way. She was born and grew up in the US, and when I asked her to read out loud "English is tough stuff", without preparation, she did so without a glitch. It was as if she didn't see the point of the poem at all. I pointed out all those words rhyming, but spelled differently, or spelled similarly but not rhyming. 'But those are different words!' she said. Why did I expect them to rhyme?

Personal experience: I had a 'visually challenged' daughter, with some eyesight left but she preferred braille to the magnifying TV. When she started school, her teacher chose to introduce braille to the entire class. One of her classmates turned out to have a strong dyslexia ... when reading printed text. He very quickly learned to read braille with his fingertips, almost as well as my daughter. When reading with his fingertips he had no sign of dyslexia whatsoever.

So maybe switching to another typefaces is something like switching from visual reading to fingertip reading. But I sure would like to see an independent study showing it, before I trust the claim that it is so.
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