Blog: The Latest on Dyslexia

Distraction is a card game that helps players improve their working memory skills while having fun.

Working Memory is an essential skill for reading and learning. A child must learn how to decipher, retain, and combine letters into words in order to read smoothly and spell, and a strong working memory helps the child develop these skills.

Speech Recognition Software, or SRS, have proven to benefit the lives of those with low typing or writing skills, including many dyslexics. Beyond its ability to navigate around a user’s computer without the need of the keyboard, this software is also useful because its speech-to-text dictation abilities can help a user type using just their voice-- no typing required. Most SRS programs require some voice training in order to familiarize the software and the user’s voice with...