During my forty years of practice as a learning specialist, I struggled to find the ways to make the process of reading more accessible to the struggling reader. By the final 20 years of my practice I was regularly re-typing books for my students – making adjustments in the text to make it more accessible to the unique needs of each student.

In a revelatory moment, late in the night, while re-typing chapter 5 of Hatchet for a dyslexic 4th grader, I realized that what I had been doing night after night for years, could be available to all students with the use of computer technology. For the first time, I could see how we might focus on changing the visual environment rather than focusing on “changing or fixing” the reader, that the way text looked could be determined by the reader, rather than by the printing press.

In that moment, I set about finding a team to help realize an app with many options for modifying text, that was adjustable, at the will of the reader, at any time – and the DyslexiAR app was created.

See CognitionLabs.com for more information and to sign up for a demo.