Assisstive Technology and Dyslexia

Dyslexia is a brain-based condition that effects a person's ability to read, spell, and/or write. People with dyslexia have problems understanding and working with language, but it is not related to intelligence. Having trouble recognizing individual sounds in words and matching them up with letters that represent those sounds (this is called phonemic awareness) makes reading, spelling, and writing difficult for people with dyslexia. Specialized reading instruction and assistive technology are two things that can help people with dyslexia with these skills (Dawson et al., 2019).