It’s a plain fact of life that we can never get inside anyone else’s head… and that’s probably a good thing!
But what might it feel like to have dyslexia?
Designer (and dyslexic) Daniel Britton recently put together a project to show the confusion – and perhaps occasional terror – that dyslexics can experience when looking at a piece of text.
Key to note here is that he is not trying to represent what words visually look like to dyslexics – most children with reading difficulty have no problem recognizing letters. Rather, Britton is trying to help others experience the emotional strain that struggling readers can face.
“What I wanted to do was recreate or simulate the emotions of reading with dyslexia to try and put across how frustrating it is to try and read something simple.”
Take a look! http://magazine.good.is/articles/typeface-font-dyslexia-simulation
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Sarah Forrest is a Program Manager for the Easyread System, an online course for children struggling with dyslexia, reading difficulties, auditory processing issues and more.
