>Thanks for Graham's address.
He phoned me yesterday, to ask who you were. I gave you a good reference!
> unacceptability, for public consumption,
I quite agree.
>Sassoon
She certainly is not into dyslexia. She came to our local dyslexia group
and talked, quite stimulatingly but without mentioning the word. She is at
odds with the National Handwriting Interest Group. She is not a teacher,
but a calligraphist. She has some good principles. I do not know the
criteria by which her fonts were developed. I like them for appearance, but
do not find them any easier to read.
>Do you have any ideas for charitable/research money that would enable him
to finish?
No, I could only suggest that NCET ought to know.
Ian, on the phone yesterday I asked Graham how many dyslexic adults he
studied in his research. Only 10 or 20, with anecdotal info from teachers
of dyslexic adults. That is too small a sample. He visited ADO and used
some of their members I think. Can I suggest that you or I or both see his
research papers. (There was a researcher, Roger Spooner, at York Conf in
April. I am sure that his research re spelling checkers for dyslexia will
earn him a PhD but I am not sure that he will produce anything that we can
use. There is a difference.)
Graham is going to send me a printout to include in the next Computer
Newsletter, and some recommendations for presentation of text for dyslexic
people.
Regards
Jean Hutchins
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