iReadMore: A Reading Therapy App Co-Designed by People with Aphasia and Alexia

We present the iReadMore app, a reading therapy for people with acquired reading or language impairments (known as alexia and aphasia respectively). The app was co-designed by people with alexia and aphasia, and has been demonstrated to significantly improve reading speed and accuracy in a randomized controlled trial. It is intended to be used at home without the support of a therapist. Therefore, accessibility and maintaining therapy engagement are key elements in achieving the high therapy doses required for rehabilitation of reading impairments. As such, these elements were developed in a co-design process that included 50 participants over 2 phases. This demonstration will present the flow of the application and detail how we translated a clinically validated prototype into a publicly available therapy app used by hundreds of people with acquired reading impairments since its release in March 2021.