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Dyslexia Technology app research

Hi!
I'm a final year college student and am working on an app for dyslexic users. I would be very grateful if any dyslexics would take a moment to answer a few questions, so I can make the app better 

Thanks so much!
1. What are
the main symptoms of your dyslexia and how does it present? (Trouble with
reading, spelling, writing, grammar or other specific tasks?
2. How does
being dyslexic effect your everyday life and learning? Has your dyslexia
ever impacted your studies or learning?
4. Do you
have any prior experience with using dyslexia assistive technology? If so,
what type of technology? (coloured overlays for
papers, highlighters, spell checkers, text readers, apps or add-ons that change
font/page contrast, smartpens etc.)
5. Which of
the products you used did you find helpful and unhelpful and why?
6. Do you feel a need for better assistive technology to help with dyslexia?
Replies
There are three cognitive subtypes of developmental dyslexia - auditory, visual, and attentional, so it depends on which of these types of clinical disorder is the underlying cause of your dyslexic symptom.
Each of the different causes of the dyslexia symptom have different sets of other symptoms, and more importantly require different alternative compensating skills and abilities to work arohnd the different types of limitations
I noticed that you mentioned some of the compensating technology for those who have visual sensitivity which could be part of the cause for some of tbeir dyslexic symptom. .
I have Auditory Processing Disorder as the cause of my dyslexia, and the internet and emails have been the only technology support so far.
Your sister may be like our children and have the Temporal type of Auditory processing Disorder, the brain having problems processing the gaps between sounds as the underlying cognitive cause of her dyslexic symptom.
I use Evernote as an online note set of web pages which can be kept private or shared with others when required. As an example I have an Evernote web page listing my PubMed Dyslexia paper collection at
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s329/sh/b7ee9497-d963-4b30-a328-0d7b087e0d09/2f19fea1f77027b91566b316fb1989f0
I hope this helps