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Lexilife offers solutions to enable people with dyslexia to simplify reading, train and assess their progress. Presentation.
Today people with dyslexia represent 10% of the population – or 7 million people in France and 700 million worldwide. The research has made it possible to put forward a hypothesis: in a large part of the cases, people with dyslexia have two dominant eyes. This double dominance can confuse the brain when reading which tends to superimpose a mirror image.
This written language learning disorder affects an average of three children per class in France and can lead to academic difficulties and loss of self-confidence. Dyslexia is not a disease but a handicap that cannot be cured.
To support people with dyslexia, Lexilife has created the Lexilight lamp which incorporates an innovative technology based on pulsed and modulated light, improving reading for almost all dyslexics by erasing this mirror image.
A non-dyslexic has a single dominant eye which sends main information to the brain, which it can analyze. A dyslexic person has, on the contrary, two dominant eyes which simultaneously send two different information to the brain. It is this confusion that creates mirror images and disrupts reading.
The Lexilight lamp will correct this problem by allowing the brain to process information as if it came from a single dominant eye. It emits pulsed and modulated light that reduces the mirror effect that dyslexics see when reading. The lamp diffuses a light thanks to LED diodes whose waves can be adapted to the sight by the user.
The lamp varies several parameters of these diodes, in particular their refresh rate, so that one eye can take precedence over the other to reduce the mirror effect. Two dials allow the user to easily and finely adjust the pulse and modulation of the wave to suit their eyesight.
Adults spend an average of 5 hours in front of screens and children 4 hours. As reading difficulties for dyslexics also apply to screens, it is important to be able to relieve them on this medium as well. The lamp has been designed to be positioned vertically facing the screen. To increase efficiency, you can decrease the brightness of the screen.
A reading coaching app
In addition to this lamp, Lexilife is launching a mobile reading coaching application to support all people with dyslexia. This application is intended to support all dyslexic people regardless of their degree of disability and their reading level. To adapt to everyone, it offers texts classified according to 3 levels of difficulty (easy, medium and difficult) that the reader can choose according to their size.
Throughout the reading, the user is timed and sees the count of remaining words displayed. To keep his motivation intact, he is congratulated at the end of each paragraph, and takes stock of his mistakes himself. At the end of the session, a short questionnaire is offered to him in order to note his feelings. The self-assessment allows the reader to follow his evolution and progress while empowering him.
Before starting to read, the user specifies whether he has the Lexilight lamp, and whether or not he is accompanied by a loved one. If necessary, he is invited to enter the settings chosen for his lamp. Thus, the settings of its Lexilight lamp will be recorded in order to guarantee comfortable reading for each text. He will also be accompanied to refine the settings of the lamp according to his reading sensations. A lamp adjustment tutorial is available on the health home page.
This application is also a support for information on dyslexia. It offers educational content intended for different user profiles: explanations, advice and solutions concerning this handicap. Children, parents, students and even teachers can therefore educate themselves and better help people with dyslexia.
Source: Lexilife
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