A few questions for dyslexics:<p>1) Is it consistent? Do you have have trouble with the same letters/letter pairings? Or do different words tend to have different effects?<p>2) Normal readers tend to read the "word" and not the individual letters. Do/Can dyslexics do the same? As an example, if for instance dyslexics commonly were to transpose the "o" and "u" combination "ou" to "uo" I'm wondering if dyslexics read the jumbled "yuo" immediately as "you" or, does dyslexia prevent you from even recognizing the pattern and you have to laboriously read "y" "u" "o", transpose "o" and "u" and recognize "you".<p>The reason I ask is because I'm curious if such a typeface might actually be hurtful to dyslexic readers. While the typeface is easier to read for dyslexics I wonder if using such a type face for initial reading education would have a side effect. When the reader switches to non dyslexic type faces, %99.99 the rest of all digital type, they will have diminished capacity for reading those texts (more so than having learned to cope with the frequent errors of those type faces)?<p>In other words, might the best solution to be educating dyslexics by recognizing they may see different or multiple letter patterns for certain words and simply train them to recognize each possible version of those letter patterns?<p>IE. Here's a vocabulary sheet for Johny, a non dyslexic child:<p><pre><code> "mouse" - a small four legged mammal.
"house" - a building you live in.
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The same vocabulary sheet for Mikey, a dyslexic child.<p><pre><code> "mouse", "muose" - a small four legged mammal.
"house", "huose" - a building you live in.
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Granted I'm very ignorant of this disorder and I may be over simplifying it. But my ultimate question and I don't mean it to sound cold or callous, but might it be better to focus efforts on teaching dyslexics to deal with it?