THE LATEST FROM DYSLEXIAHELP

Anki is an advanced flashcard program that makes any kind of studying or learning better tailored to fit your learning pace.

Hairy Letters is an application by Nessy Learning Limited that is designed to help students 4-6 years old with recognizing the phonic value of letters along with the letters’ names.

Made in succession of Nessy’s Hairy Letters, Hairy Phonics 1, 2, and 3 are applications for your smartphone or tablet that teach young students the phonemes associated with the letters of the alphabet that were mastered in Hairy Letters

Standford University’s Bruce McCandliss and his colleagues Yuliya Yoncheva and Jessica Wise conducted an experiment hoping to shed some light on a connection between the way a child learns how to read and the brain’s changing circuitry.

NaturalReader 13 is a text-to-speech software that has a larger selection of natural sounding read-back voices than most similar software.

Available for Android devices, the IDEAL Group Reader is a free eBook reader application created to assist with reading.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, a team of researchers at Yale monitored the brains of both nonimpaired (NI) and dyslexic (DYS) readers, finding that the DYS readers showed divergent connectivity when reading, meaning their brain didn’t regularly make the connection between the visual properties of a word and the semantic properties, or meaning of the word.

Reading Rainbow is an application for both Apple and Android products that makes over 500 hundred fiction and non-fiction books and supplementary videos available to your child or student.

Read&Write’s newest addition to their collection of text-help products is an application for your iPad or Android tablet designed to help those with dyslexia or other language-learning disabilities.

For many with reading difficulties, having text read out loud to them as they follow improves their reading abilities. Learning Ally Audio is a free app which contains over 75,000 audiobooks to help those with difficulties in reading.

Wolfram|Alpha is not only a great tool for those who struggle with math, but also for those who have difficulties in math because of dyslexia or other learning disabilities.

TalkButton is a text-to-speech software application available for Mac users that can help improve both reading skills and visual attention.

The C-Pen digital highlighter was created with the intention to make note-taking both easier and quicker.

Here are a few more resources and ideas that teachers can use in the classroom.

A new study suggests that playing action video games could improve the literacy skills of those with dyslexia.

Check out these five learning tools that were on display at this year’s BETT conference.

ModMath is a free iPad app that allows users to set up and solve math problems with a touchscreen and keyboard – no pencil and paper required!

A recent study by the University of Leicester suggests that young developing readers have a similar understanding of how letters at the beginning and end of words can help make sense of words, even if there are typos or jumbled letters in the middle of those words.

Researchers from Florida State University studied first- and second-grade students from schools representing diverse environments, finding that in circumstances with excellent teachers, the variability in student reading achievement may appear to be largely due to genetics.

Most students with dyslexia are not confident in an academic setting, but this does not have to be the case.