Quote:
Originally Posted by ghastmxn
Huh! Maybe it was the placebo effect all along.
|
At one time as part of my IT career, I worked with one school district's special needs people on several projects. One of them was testing multiple fonts to see if they had any effect on dyslexic readers. Basically, OpenDyslexic and Dyslexie did not show any consistent improvements compared to any other fonts and some subjects actually did consistently worse with them. What we did find was sans-serif fonts such as Arial and Comic Sans with a slightly larger font size worked best for the majority of the subjects but some subjects were happier with serif fonts. Basically, find a font you are comfortable with and use it.
See this article from Edutopia:
Do Dyslexia Fonts Actually Work?.
Please forgive me for mentioning Comic Sans.
