Dyslexic Software

Those professionals familiar with the field of dyslexia will readily admit that one of the major challenges for the dyslexic student is identifying, spelling, and pronouncing homonyms and homophonesWhile today's technology has made dyslexic software readily available, you must still be selective when choosing a dyslexic software program for homonyms.

One of the standard approaches until now has been having the dyslexic student use a spell checker to proofread her workSince the dyslexic person will often reverse the order of letters when reading or writing words, a spell checker seemed like a good ideaIt would allow the student to go back over her work and make sure that all words were spelled correctly.

This works well except for homonyms and non-homonym words that have visually similar spellingFor example a spell checker would not tell you that "red" should be "read" in the sentence, "I red the book last night." Instead, our dyslexic student would be given a "Spell check complete, no errors found." message by the spell checker.