A Silicon Bullet for Dyslexia

Step #1 Dictate -- Bill begins by recording sentences to make a paragraph.

Step #2 (Transcription) -- Bill gives this recorded dictation to his teacher for transcribing into a word processing program.

His teacher or an assistant transcribes his dictation word for word in lower case with no punctuation into a word processing document on a computer. (The student is allocated up to 20 min. per day for transcribing time which will be performed within 24 hours.)

Step #3 Edit --Bill finds the dictation typed in lower case with no punctuation -- a stream of words. He "reads" the text with a screen reader/voice synthesizer, edits the text by adding punctuation and capitalization.

The next day Bill finds the dictation typed and begins by reading all the words using the screen reader/voice synthesizer. He uses the voice to read the text word for word while editing the text into sentences with the wordprocessor. The procedure is finished when he prints the document and gives the print document to his teacher.

Step #4 Print -- Bill finishes the procedure by printing his document and turning it in to his teacher.

This high and low tech approach enables bright dyslexic students to quickly learn how to produce written language that is comparable to their oral language.

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