Assistive Technology for students with Dyslexia

For my disability, I chose dyslexia which is a learning disability that is estimated to affect one in every ten people. Dyslexia is also the most common language-related disability. Dyslexia is referred to as a 'Invisible' disability because it is difficult to diagnose and many people are completely unaware that they are dyslexic. Some of the common complications for students with dyslexia include, "poor word reading, word decoding, oral reading fluency and spelling." 

One of the types of Assistive Technology created for students with dyslexia is a Livescribe Smart

Pen. The Smart Pen is able to record audio and it takes pictures of your notes while you are writing that can then be loaded straight onto your computer. One of the large challenges that students with dyslexia have is listening to lectures and understanding the information while taking notes. The Livescribe Smart Pen's purpose is to help with that common problem.

The recorder button on the Smart Pen can be easily pressed to turn the audio recorder on and off. So if the student is suddenly unable to keep up with taking notes, they can simply press the button to record that part of the lecture. By recording it, you can then download the audio onto the Livescribe Desktop Software and it will continue typing your notes for you as it is recorded. The Livescribe Smart Pen makes it significantly easier for students to pay more attention in class.

Beyond the capabilities that the Livescribe Smart Pen has now, I would say the next step for improving this Assistive Technology would be for the students to have the capability to record live video of what is being written on the board by the teacher. Such as: important ideas, examples, problems, and equations. This would be incredibly helpful in a math class where writing out equations can be time consuming.

References:
http://dyslexia.yale.edu/TECH_livescribe.html
http://www.austinlearningsolutions.com/blog/38-dyslexia-facts-and-statistics.html
http://dyslexia.yale.edu/WSJ_SchwabLetter.html
https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/child-learning-disabilities/dyslexia/understanding-dyslexia