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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Actually, simply reading with an audio channel doesn't help dyslexics all that much. I use to tutor dyslexics in high school (the school I went to had one of the best dyslexia programs around at the time). At the time, the standard method was to have the student read aloud and correct them as they read. Now a program where the student could read aloud and be corrected might be very useful and very doable.
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I have friends who are dyslexic who *hated* those programs.
Their preferred approach is, in fact, TTS on Kindle.
(Cold dead hands and all that.)
Non-judgmental, runs at their pace. And the material is stuff they love to read, not pre-selected litfic. Very smart folks. One's a physicist, the other is a tech writer for a rather large software firm.
Standard programs often hurt more than they help.
Which is where the cognitive sciences folks are coming in. Clean sheet studies to figure out what really works, not what "educators" think should work.