In case you hadn’t noticed, the past couple of years have marked the beginning of a brave new world in education—for students as well as parents. And while the case can be made for many things that have gone (horribly, painfully) wrong, one major winner from all of this emergency innovation in education (and increased delivery of classwork content on computers and learning pads) are the new fonts for kids (and adults) with dyslexia.
Both the Dyslexie Font and OpenDyslexic help readers with dyslexia by having letters and symbols that are thicker on the bottom than on the top, which forces the eye to focus. This not only encourages older children to read (because who wants to do something that’s hard, anyways?), but it helps keep early readers from falling behind their classmates by instilling confidence—a hard-earned attribute for children who can sometimes feel like they’re masters of none when it comes to reading and writing.
Dyslexie is available on Kindles and ebook readers, which gives your dyslexic reader access to every e-book you buy on Amazon. Read that again. Every. Book. On. Amazon. To use it on a handheld device, you must purchase an app.
You can download OpenDyslexic for free.
—Shelley Massey
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