Dyslexia is a learning disability for people who struggle with reading words. However, with effective Dyslexia programs and now with Dyslexia apps offered, children are becoming more comfortable and open with reading books and various material.
Special needs children who have Dsylexia problems may also struggle with the-4-ds-no-one-is-talking-about. So lets take a look at the Dyslexia apps listed below that can help with learning
Dyslexia Quest
This cool Dyslexia app focuses on assessing the child’s memory and listening skills. This app is divided into 6 areas that take about 10 minutes each to play. If your child is easily distracted you may want to do this app in increments to get the best possible results.
Activities are also divided amongst three different age groups up to 17. The entire goal of this app is to focus on working memory, visual, processing speed, and phonological awareness.
Simplex Spelling Phonics
This Dyslexia app for children with disabilities helps improves spelling and reading skills that is through a fun interactive platform with over 50 high frequency English words. In this app your child can build several words, and focuses on remedial concepts for students who struggle with audio, visual, and tactile skills.
Sound Literacy App
This cool app is based off of the Orton-Gillingham approach which is often used for children who struggle with Dyslexia. In this app children will focus on phonological processing, morphemic word building, phonemic awareness, and also helps students with recognizing and spelling English words.
Dyslexia Gold
In this app children will work on their reading fluency and reading comprehension. This app also helps children with special needs with reading and engaging through fun lessons through fluency builder skills, spelling, and times tables.
What also makes this app also cool is that it focuses on vision problems to stop students from skipping words and lines. This app would greatly benefit children ages 6-15, and can be completed in the United States or United Kingdom.
Omoguru: Dyslexia Friendly Reader
Great not only for special needs children but also for special needs adults. Omoguru Reader is a reading tool used for people with Dyslexia that can improve reading skills in a fun and exciting way. This app helps improves readability and greatly impacts visual learners, but especially for children with dyslexia.
This app will change the appearance of text and background to help support the dyslexic reader through various features that offeres difference colors for both the text and background. This app also allows for change in size such as spacing between in words to make it suitable for the reader.
Easy Dyslexia Aid – Dysgraphia Spelling & Literacy Helper
This app is one of the best Dyslexic apps and also great for Dysgraphia for people who struggle with writing, spelling, and speaking. This app uses words and short phrases to form letters and words to serve as a helping aid for your child. The Open Dyslexic Font is displayed in a choice of 8 background color combinations, as a means to help accommodate users suffering from Dyslexia and improve readability.
This feature can be changed in the settings which are also easily navigated to from the main screen. Additionally, within the settings, you can choose to turn off speech output is you wish, display upper and lower case letters and change between 18 different languages.
Special Word
This app helps teaches word recognition, spoken language, listening/attention, along with hand-eye coordination skills. This contains over 96 words and pictures commonly used during the English language development, and six activities that includes (matching pictures, words, and sounds). This app can be used for children, teachers, and therapist such as a Speech Therapist to help with expressive and receptive language development.
Montessori Words & Phonics
This app helps children with reading, writing, and spelling skills by building words using a phonics-enabled Movable Alphabet. The app also helps children with first understanding that words are made up of sounds/phonics (phonemic awareness).
Then, the app helps kids memorize the phonics associated with letters by providing a phonics-enabled alphabet where kids can touch each letter and hear the associated phonic. This app includes over 21 fun colorful interactive games pack with animation for your child to learn.
Additional Dyslexia Resources for Children and Teens
Overall, Dyslexia apps are a great way to get your child started with learning when it comes to reading, writing, and spelling. You can also check out these other programs that helps Dyslexic children as well. Also, be sure to check out my video of the nine accommodations that your child or teen could be receiving at school if needed.
