Great investigative article on the Dyslexie font. I certainly wouldnt use the word revolutionary myself, but the idea itself is a powerful one. And super interesting, no matter what. The basic concept stands, in particular for emergent readers (pre-k & kinder in particular, but even up to 1st) who struggle to discern the difference between p, d, and b (like the illustration). Imagine this: someone is holding up a wristwatch and asks you what it is. A watch, you answer. The holder turns it upside down; Now what is it? A watch. Flips it backwards - still a watch. This is what happens to kids who see a d and read a b. A lowercase d is - in most fonts and in much of basic manuscript handwriting - a mirrored b. So changing the key structures of fonts to make otherwise mirrored or rotated letters more distinctive is a great start, and also good for teaching emergent readers to distinguish between the letters and their corresponding sounds before introducing more traditional typefaces. But dyslexia is a far more complicated diagnosis and often attaches any number of additional learned comping mechanisms that will differ from person to person. I see this having far more use as a teaching tool in pre-K for emergent readers learning to identify letter shapes rather than as corrective or supportive therapy for older readers who have already established a connection (although the potential for re-teaching isnt entirely without merit).
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 20:12:44 +0000
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