Dancing Letters
How does it feel to have Dyslexia?
Fifteen percent of the world's population suffers from dyslexia. It's a disability that many people don't believe exists, and because of that it's not being noticed enough. Dancing Letters is a word game with the purpose of educating people who do not suffer from Dyslexia, on how it feels to have Dyslexia.
Reading is complex. It requires our brains to connect letters to sounds, put those sounds in the right order, and pull the words together into sentences and paragraphs we can read and comprehend. People with dyslexia have trouble matching the letters they see on the page with the sounds those letters and combinations of letters make. And when they have trouble with that step, all the other steps are harder.
How does it feel to have Dyslexia?
Fifteen percent of the world's population suffers from dyslexia. It's a disability that many people don't believe exists, and because of that it's not being noticed enough. Dancing Letters is a word game with the purpose of educating people who do not suffer from Dyslexia, on how it feels to have Dyslexia.
Reading is complex. It requires our brains to connect letters to sounds, put those sounds in the right order, and pull the words together into sentences and paragraphs we can read and comprehend. People with dyslexia have trouble matching the letters they see on the page with the sounds those letters and combinations of letters make. And when they have trouble with that step, all the other steps are harder.
San Francisco, 2019