A new study has shown that the more space there is between between each character the easier is it for people who suffer from dyslexia to read texts! This is actually so interesting that I �ve decided to share that useful piece of information in case you didn �t know...
have a look at this definition I found on wikipedia - the size of the letters are the same, the only different is in the space between the characters and the lines:)
Dyslexia is a very broad term defining a learning
disability that
impairs a person �s fluency or comprehension accuracy in being able to read, and which can manifest itself as a difficulty
with phonological
awareness, phonological decoding, orthographic coding, auditory short-term memory, or rapid naming. Dyslexia
is distinct from reading difficulties resulting from other causes, such as a
non-neurological deficiency with vision or hearing, or from poor or inadequate reading instruction. It is believed that dyslexia can affect
between 5 and 10 percent of a given population although there have been no
studies to indicate an accurate percentage.
There are three proposed cognitive subtypes of
dyslexia: auditory, visual and attentional. Reading disabilities, or dyslexia,
is the most common learning disability, although in research literature it is
considered to be a receptive language-based learning disability. Researchers at
MIT found that people with dyslexia exhibited impaired
voice-recognition abilities.
Adult dyslexics can read with good comprehension, but
they tend to read more slowly than non-dyslexics and perform more poorly at
spelling and nonsense word reading, a measure of phonological awareness.
Dyslexia and IQ are not
interrelated as a result of cognition developing independently.
I heard about that on TV but the video is in French so only a few of you might find it interesting...
http://www.france5.fr/sante/le-magazine-de-la-sante/emission/2012-07-04
have a nice week-end :)