Dyslexia friendly reader: Prototype, designs, and exploratory study

Abstract

This paper describes results of an evaluation of a prototype of a dyslexia-friendly reader app developed based on analysis of readability research and a survey of existing technology. It consists of 1) mock up designs of a reader application based on research that identified shortcomings of existing reader apps as well as the best available research on reading by dyslexic readers, 2) a prototype reader implementing some significant features of this design, 3) results from an observational study of young readers identified as struggling with literacy. In addition, the papers offers an overview of the state of the art of research and provide a brief survey of existing reader applications on current mobile platforms. The research and development described in this paper was conducted as part of the EU FP7ICT project iLearnRW - Integrated Intelligent Learning Environment for Reading and Writing (318803).