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Originally Posted by BeccaPrice
as an anectdata, my son has some learning deficits that make reading difficult for him. It could take him a few months to read a paperback. I got him a Kindle SO for Christmas, and he's read at least 3 books that I know of since then. It took him about a week to read the first Hunger Games novel. At least for my son, ereading is easier for him to do, and his comprehension does not seem to have suffered; if anything, it's better.
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You are not the first to report that.
Dyslexia runs in my family. My case is not that severe and I was able to learn to read on time by figuring out that Clifford was not a god or a gop or a dop or however I was reading the word. My younger brothers was more severe. They found that if he read using a red transparency that the letters did not move and reading was easier for him.
It has been theorized that the slightly different screen color of an e-reader, combined with the different font sizes, might make a difference for kids with reading problems. The brain processes the text slightly different because the input is slightly different and it makes enough of a difference that reading is not as tough. Kind of like the red transperincy helped my brother.
I know other people who have discussed using the text ot speech function with the child reading along and that has really helped the child learn to read better.
E-readers are turning out to be valuable tools for lots of folks and work in ways that many people did not think of. It is very cool.