Hello! This blog is about my daughter Hailey (currently 12 years old) and her experiences living with auditory processing disorder. Auditory Processing Disorder is Hailey's primary issue, however she has also been given the labels Sensory Processing Disorder, Dyslexia, Visual Processing Disorder, Mixed Expressive Receptive Language Disorder and Phonology Disorder at various points in her life.

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Larger, Darker Font Makes Reading with Visual Processing Disorder Easier

Good News!  


Hailey has discovered the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books and is devouring them as fast as she did the graphic novels.  She said the letters don't jump around on the pages and it's interesting and fun to read.  I think the fact that the letters are of a darker and larger font on slightly yellowed paper makes a big difference for her visual processing.

(The Diary of a Wimpy Kid books by Jeff Kinney are in the fifth grade reading level range.  So the fact that she is a sixth grader reading them fluently - yes she is reading them at a fluent speed and not slightly slower - is wonderful!)


UPDATE: I was told the Kindle Fire enables you to change the font size and color of the text as well as the background "paper" color.  I want to find out more about people's results with using this feature, especially if you have a visual processing disorder or dyslexia.  So if you can tell me anything that might help, I'm ready to listen!

4 comments:

  1. i am a 11 year old kid and i have APD and some dyslexia. when i read books i like to read books that are like diary of a wimpy kid and comics such as big nate! and i feel that these books are quite easy to read but also enjoyable. the font is perfect for me and the format of the book is also nice. like your daughter i am in grade 6 but i have stared reading harry potter and precy jacson and for now its quite intresting. i read the books off a kobo reader and well i vould ask my dad if he could add the bacround colour because i seem to enjoy and better read books with a yellow like backround. i really hope it will help me!

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    1. Hi Maya, Thank you for commenting. I'm so glad to hear you have found that a yellow background helps. Hailey says hello to you. --Bev

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