Personalized learning for students with dyslexia
Dyslexia is the most common language-based learning disability, affecting between 5 to 17 percent of children in the United States. Children with dyslexia usually have difficulties learning in the classroom, so many students with dyslexia attend special education or receive one-on-one tutoring in order to receive instruction that is specifically targeted towards them. With effective intervention during the early stages of literacy, the gap between dyslexic and non-dyslexic students can be minimized. However, this intervention is usually not effective, because teachers for students with dyslexia have trouble personalizing instruction for each individual student.
Our solution
LearnAble is a reading management system to support personalized reading instruction for students with dyslexia. It has a library of reading passages, categorized by their level of difficulty with regards to vocabulary and grammar. Teachers can easily assign passages at the appropriate difficulty level for their students on their interface. To determine an individual student's reading level, a student can record themselves reading their assigned passage out loud, and LearnAble notes which words the student struggled with and finds patterns between those words. The teacher can use this data to gain a deeper insight into their student's reading level, and structure their instruction accordingly.
