Dyslexia is a frequent learning trouble for children. Many types of dyslexia exist and disturb both reading acquisition and writing acquisition. There are some solutions, like Storyplay’r, for helping dyslexic children.
What is dyslexia?
Dyslexia is a difficulty of reading acquisition and spelling. Dyslexia is finding when children are at primary school, during the first years. It is not an intellectual disability or a psychiatric trouble. However, dyslexic people have some difficulties when they learn how to read. There is a difficulty to identify letters, syllables, and words. There is also a slowness written language and some confusions about sounds and letters.
There are 3 types of dyslexia:
- the phonological dyslexia: there is a difficulty of the link between the grapheme and the phoneme. That is a dysfunction of the assembly line.
- the surface dyslexia: when reading comprehension is tested, homophones are often confused with each other. Spelling can be also impaired.
- the mixed dyslexia: it is both a phonological and lexical dysfunction.
How can we help dyslexic children to appreciate the reading?
It is difficult to enjoy reading when we have some difficulties from the beginning of learning words. Therefore, Storyplay’r proposes a two-step approach to the problem. On the one hand, your child could take advantage of audio contents to familiarize himself (or herself) with reading while benefiting from its benefits. On the other hand, he can benefit from a reading assistance.
Reading assistance
Storyplay’r provides some reading assistance tools to children:
- Pronunciation assistance: when the child clicks on a word or a sentence, he could hear the sound of this word or the sentence.
- Varied display options for easy reading: font, size, color, line spacing…
- Recording the voice: lector becomes narrator. The child can record his voice while he reads, and listens himself again, alone and without stress. Parents, brothers and sisters can also record their voices and share personnalized versions.
Audio contents
Storyplay’r has several hundred books in audio version told by storytellers. Your child could listen while he will read a book. Despite his difficulties, he could benefit from reading benefits: development of his imagination, increase his vocabulary, development of his reflexion and analyze capacity.
