Article on Dyslexia Disease

Running head: DYSLEXIA
Psychology
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Dyslexia is a condition which is regarded as a reading disorder which is faced, even
though the person having it possess perfect intelligence level like any other being. The degrees
at which people face the problem while reading are not same, as some people face greater
degrees of challenges, while others quite less. The difficulties which are faced by people having
dyslexia include quickly reading, spelling words, writing words, pronouncing the words perfectly
and even understanding the meanings which is read. Reading experiences play a very crucial
role and how Dyslexic people understand and relate to what they read (Ellis, 2016). In this paper,
the discussion will involve an article and its claims which underlines some crucial aspects of the
condition. The article which shall be discussed in this paper is named as Good Fonts for Dyslexia
by Luz Rellp and Ricardo Baeza Yates.
The article sheds light on a very important aspect of the condition of Dyslexia as the
children facing it struggle to keep up with the curriculum and the learnings offered in a
classroom. Dyslexia is the condition due to which children face immense problems while
spelling, writing and reading which affect moral and self-confidence in the children as they often
cannot match up to the standard. It is because of this, it is very important that they receive the
support which they require for being able to meet the standards and feel accepted in an
environment in spite of facing difficulties in adjusting. Some neurological aspects such as
differences in the structure of the brain contribute to other issues which are faced by people
which dyslexia. These people, not only have difficulties in reading and writing but also while
expressing themselves. This poses great challenges to them being understood by people, also
their close ones, in the family. Therefore, to overcome this immense burden a very good way,
which has been pointed by Rello & Baeza-Yates (2013) involve usage of effective fonts, which
will help them learn and identify alphabets effectively.

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The article discusses the effectiveness of fonts and how they can enhance the reqding
performances of the children who have Dyslexia. A dyslexic child might even possess great
skills, unlike others. A child with dyslexia might be more creative as compared to the other
children in the classroom, while they struggle to excel in study. Their strengths may lie in other
areas, where they can conceptualize and think out of the box, rather than what is taught and
expected from them. School plays a very crucial role in the life of a dyslexic child as it is often
the place where their condition first gets highlighted, while being placed among other children
and a curriculum, where they are expected to fit in (Elliot & Gringorenko, 2014). The
neurological disability makes the children unable to read and write as effectively which can be
addressed through effective fonts, which will help them read and write better and combat their
weaknesses.
The authors conducted a research to investigate how the presentation of text can help in
the process of enhancing the experience of reading people with dyslexia. The research, which
was conducted by authors were carried out among 48 people with Dyslexia o test how reading
performances get affected by the alteration of the font by using eye tracking and taking not of
their personal preferences, which might make the process easier for them (Rello& Baeza-Yates,
2013). The focus of the study has rested on the fact that font types play a very crucial role in the
process of impacting readability, if a person has the condition of dyslexia. It has also outlined
which are the fonts which have served the purpose to enhance readability and reading
performance among people with dyslexia and the ones which yielded to negative outcomes. In
order to understand readability, the researched had two dependent measures which include
Fixation duration and Reading time, information of which was extracted from eye tracking data
(Rello& Baeza-Yates, 2013). A comprehension question was used in the research as the control