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Dear All
WordFlashReader is free and does PDF docs, web pages – not Word docs unfortunately but these can be converted to Word. It has chunking as well as individual
words as well as a full screen mode.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wordflashreader/
A lot of dyslexic and dyspraxic readers will often read using a lot more eye movements than a non dyslexic or dyspraxic reader. I can see the RSVP style helping
for this.
Hope that is of interest,
Alastair Veal
Assistive Technology
Brunel University
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I am actually very excited by this and I this that if you read the ‘criticism’ it has to be taken in context and in relation to the fact that we have newer and different
contexts than were around when this was first played with (this would need a big paragraph!). In the Chrome extension , Readline, you can pause with spacebar and step forward and back using the arrow keys – wow! I think that the possibilities are exciting
…
Also if nothing else, this allows you to read effectively at a great distance from the screen and with minimal attention to orientation/positional changes …
And what about it’s application to smart watches etc…..
Watch this space …
Cheers
jeremy
Jeremy Linskell CEng, CSci, MIPEM
Principal Clinical Scientist
Electronic Assistive Technology Service
Ninewells Hospital
Dundee
Scotland
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Hi all.
Will have to check this out; thanks for sharing, Mike.
I would be interested to see how effective this is for those who use the steady eye technique for reading. For those that don’t know this, it’s a technique
used by those (like me) who have little or no central vision. Once you know the best position for your eye to be in, you hold your eye steady in place and then pass the text in front of it; pretty much the opposite of how the majority of us read.
The Macular Society had an app commissioned to help people develop this technique (MD_evReader on iOS) where the text scrolls in from a user-defined position.
You could also change the focal point, scroll rate and font. It would be interesting to compare this with the app mentioned below.
Roll on the iOS version!
Best wishes,
Matt
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I too have just looked at it on Twitter too
Sal Cooke
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On Behalf Of Michael Parry
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Obviously, I only ever read the Guardian or the Times Higher Educational Supplement normally, but it was lying next to me on the train... and er..ahem..
But it is interesting. The app displays text one word at a time, in the centre of the screen, with the middle letter of the word in red to maintain the user's focus. The user can increase
the frequency at which the words are displayed. According to the 'Sun Man', he was quickly able to read at 600 words per minute. The app's creators claim that speeds of up to 1200 words per minute are possible.
At each stage, the user did a quiz to test his recall to make sure that he had actually taken it all in.
The interesting thing is that journalist Matt Quinton says that he stopped 'hearing' the words in his head as he read. They were processed without being sounded. This is thought to be the
key to the technique.
The Spritz app is available for android platforms at the moment, but they are planning to release versions for other platforms.
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Regards
Mike Parry
Study Needs Assessor
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