Lessons from an Unpublished Study: The Impact of Text Formats on Students with Dyslexia Developing reading skills is critical for participation in education and in life; for individuals with dyslexia, developing these skills is a significant challenge. Recent research demonstrates that text format characteristics, including shape, size, and spacing, can significantly impact reading proficiency.…
Think about the person that uses prescription eyeglasses… As they put them on, their speed of accurate reading immediately increases. Some people question whether or not text format changes (such as size, shape, and spacing) can significantly impact readability. A reader with the perfect pair of glasses offers an analogy. For readers who need…
Better Readability Improves Fluency and Comprehension Orthographic Processing Becoming a strong reader requires both the capacity to utilize sound-based decoding strategies and the ability to recognize familiar words accurately. Orthographic processing includes the ability to identify familiar letter patterns as words. Good readers rely less heavily on sound-based decoding strategies and more on orthographic…
Readability Creates Better Reading Experiences To explore the difference between legibility and readability of reading material, it is important to understand that legibility is a key component of readability. Legibility is an informal measure of how easy it is to distinguish one letter from another in a particular typeface. Readability is about…
Planning for Reader Impact The tech-for-good nonprofit Readability Matters’ ultimate goals are to deliver increased engagement and success for student learners and efficiency and productivity for knowledge workers. Theory of Change is a planning tool that is used in the nonprofit sector to promote social change. A Theory of Change document sets long-term goals…
Optimizing Reading Performance by Manipulating the Shape, Size, and Spacing of Text to Match the Individual’s Visual Processing Capacity Bonnie Shaver-Troup, Kathy Crowley, Marjorie Jordan Published by the Collective Impact Project, revReading, September 2017 The ability to read quickly and efficiently is essential in the digital world with the exponential proliferation of information. Yet,…