Can The iPhone Be The Magic "Cure" For Dyslexia & Reading? - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education.

Can The iPhone Be The Magic "Cure" For Dyslexia & Reading? - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education.

Can The iPhone Be The Magic "Cure" For Dyslexia & Reading?

April 9, 2010 8:33 AM

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Howard Hill writes from the guardian.co.uk sharing an incredible discovery at the age of 57:

"I was hopeless at school, messy and terrible at spelling. And although the term dyslexia was not something I came across until much later in life, when I did I understood immediately that I had a number of its symptoms. My writing often had a jumbled logic. The advent of computers, of course, brought spell-checkers, but even so my word blindness can carry such conviction that I sometimes find myself staring incredulously at the red line underneath words, before finally realising that "during" does not begin with a "J". . .

He goes on to talk about his sudden joy and freedom to be able to read books deprived from him in his childhood because of the iPhone format. His first book was the Count of Monte Cristo. He explains:

" . . .So why I had found it easier to read from my iPhone? First, an ordinary