Visually prepared texts
The texts are presented with the help of visual aids in such a way that the causes of the reading disorder can be eliminated, e.g.
Change in contrast
As many children (and also adults with dyslexia) are distracted by the surrounding text when reading a word (segment), this surrounding text can be completely or partially faded out or even just made paler.
The text is faded out on the left and/or right to prevent the child from being disturbed/distracted by the surrounding text.
Two-colour reading cursor
The texts can be read in small segments (e.g. syllable by syllable) by underlining the text segment currently being read (e.g. a syllable) with the colour cursor; this trains eye tracking.
The lighter coloured inner cursor automatically draws attention to itself, so the text segment is automatically fixed in the right place. The outer cursor marks the other letters belonging to the text segment.
Typical example
The reader does not stick to the coloured cursor. The future text (to the right of the cursor) is too distracting, the gaze is not guided correctly over the text. As a result, the reader’s gaze jumps too far, for example, leaving gaps. Thursday” becomes “Thurday”.
The distracting text is now hidden.
The text to the right of the coloured cursor is hidden (*)
If the text is now read correctly, the hidden text can gradually be made visible again. This trains the user to ignore the surrounding text (in this case future text).
The text to the right of the colored cursor has a contrast of 20%.(*)
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Excerpt taken from J. Taylor and T. Ingelby
Lesemeister für 1./2. Jahrgangsstufe, 1993
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