Tuesday, June 5, 2012

E x t r a S p a c i n g Improves Reading for Those With Dyslexia

By Nirvi Shah from On Special Education

Extra-wide letter spacing could be a simple, efficient way to improve the reading ability of children with dyslexia and could encourage these kids to read, further improving those skills, a group of Italian and French researchers say.

When words are written with extra spaces between letters, children who have dyslexia are able to read them more quickly and accurately, a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States shows.

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