Find out how to improve the effectiveness of dyslexia

According to the results of a study by European scientists published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on June 5, the expansion of the gap between the letters in the text helps the dyslexic people to read faster and better.

Scientists have studied children in Italy and France in the ages of 8-14 who have dyslexia, when giving them reading text with a letter spacing larger than the standard, the accuracy from the reading doubled and the reading speed also increased by more than 20%.

The researchers looked at 54 Italian children and 40 French children with dyslexia, who gave them a short text with only 24 lines in two standard-letter spacing and when This distance is widened.

In standard text, the letters are printed in Times-Roman font with a print size of 14 (1 point = 0.353mm). In the extended text, the distance between letters is increased by 2.5 points, so the distance between the "i" and "l" in the Italian word "il" is 2.7pt in normal text and 5.2pt in extended text. The distance between the rows in the text is also increased to show a corresponding blank space on the page.

Children will be provided with two different letter spacing texts in their native language. The test time for memory and reading speed is two weeks. The results show that in extended text, children with dyslexia have dozens of times faster reading comprehension than reading standard distance text. Even this way is surprisingly effective in children with serious problems with letter recognition.

Dyslexia is a developmental disorder associated with an incident in one part of the brain, making it difficult to identify and interpret language in humans. This disease affects about 15% of the US population, and there is no effective cure.

Mr. Marco Zorzi, in charge of the Department of General Psychology from Padova University (Italy) affirmed: "Our discovery is a therapy that will improve dyslexia effectively, help patients achieve high efficacy. in reading comprehension without training time ".