Re: warning about Dyslexia - was "Typeface for Dyslexia in Henry Winkler childrens book"

A warning about  Dyslexia - there is a huge amount of stuff out there with very little empirical evidence that it helped more then some random case and they are often based on misunderstandings about what dyslexia is. (When I was young it was colored glasses.) There are a lot of desperate people out there who will pay for any hope.

I am going to suggest that any new info, especially if it might be a fad, gets sent to the people  writing up about that user group and added to the wiki if relevant. You can also check what is already on the wiki. (Otherwise the list will be swamped by double or triple sources.)

Of course if you feel a link might be very important and is to credible research then send away. It is more important that we get all the research out there then we over edit ourselves and miss truly good ideas.

All the best

Lisa Seeman

Athena ICT Accessibility Projects
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---- On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:54:37 +0200 Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie> wrote ---- 


Katie Haritos-Shea GMAIL wrote: 
[...] 
> I was just watching KathieLee and Hoda (from the Today show in the US). They 
> were speaking with Henry Winkler (Fonzie from Happy Days TV show). He (a 
> dyslexic) wrote a book for kids using a type developed/inventer by a 
> Norwegian father that uses weighted type. This is for dyslexic children, but 
> apparently the type face is much easier for all users to read. 
> We need to find out what typeface this is...... 
 
In the same vein, in case you haven't seen this one from the University 
of Twente, Netherlands. [1] 
 
HTH 
 
Josh 
 
[1] 
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/dutch_studio_designs_typeface_font_help_dyslexic_readers