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I think you may be 'Baching' up the wrong tree Steve. I suspect the difficulty with 'reading' music is a conceptual rather than a physical problem. The original enquirer( sorry I daren't risk losing this by trying to get back to your name) needs to clarify the exact problem. I suspect you mean sight reading which can be a problem for any musician. However dyslexics do experience particular difficulties even though they may be very good performers. If you are talking about a music student who has already studied an instrument for several years and achieved a high level of performance playing in ensembles, orchestras, etc. then they can probably read music in so far as they can identify the notes on the stave, key signatures, etc.', but relatively slowly and inefficiently. When required to put all these aspects of a piece of music together and play it at first sight this they cannot do with any fluency. However you may be referring to a student who has always played their instrument by ear and in less formal music making situations and who has never needed to play from written music until now. They will have to learn to read music. Depending on the course they may not actually be required to sight read. There is an excellent book 'Instrumental Music For Dyslexics: A Teaching Handbook' by Sheila Oglethorpe, Whurr Publishers. It covers all these issues. As the title suggests, it is aimed at music teachers, but a music student could apply the advice to their own situation. Re software and music: 'Sibelius' is the name, but it is mega bucks stuff and is for composing and writing music, not for teaching sight reading. Kate Dresser %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%