How AI Will Help Students With Dyslexia

AI (i.e., Artificial Intelligence) has the potential to help support students’ individual needs in ways that traditional accommodations may not.

Traditionally, most schools have not been set up to help dyslexic students learn in the most effective way. For example, traditional classrooms measure students’ learning largely through tests that can require copious amounts of reading, which is very hard for students who struggle with reading. Although there are accommodations for students with dyslexia, they are often generic. Accommodations, such as extra time, are important, but can do little to help the students address the root problem. 

AI (i.e., Artificial Intelligence) has the potential to help support students’ individual needs in ways that traditional accommodations may not. For example, AI can summarize complicated text into text that helps explain the content. AI can also translate text into speech, so that the student can listen to the information (i.e., reading with their ears) and better access written text. The students can customize the voice and speed so that it is easier for them to understand and follow along. AI can also help students create semantic maps and visual ways to represent text in formats that work better for them. In general, AI has potential to help create contexts where dyslexic students have the ability to customize formats to use in their studies, making it so that they can more easily access, and ultimately, learn the information.

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