Dyslexia

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For people with dyslexia, playing action video games may help them better manage shifting attention between audio and visual cues, new research reveals.

Developmental reading disorder, or dyslexia, is a learning disability that impacts language skills. People with dyslexia often find it difficult to read, and they have trouble with other language skills like writing, spelling and word recognition. It does not interfere with a person’s intelligence level. Dyslexia has nothing to do with someone’s vision and may not be diagnosed until adulthood. For example, Whoopi Goldberg and Charles Schwab are both dyslexic but didn’t realize it until they were adults.

Check out how new technology is helping people with dyslexia see words clearly and improve their reading skills