The Dyslexables
One in ten people world-wide have Dyslexia and many of these are children just starting to learn coping mechanisms for everyday life. The majority of Dyslexics learn and remember best with multi-sensory stimulus.
The 'Dyslexables' are interactive and collectable toys for children to ‘play’ maths. A fun way of engaging children in mathematics studies and appealing to a child’s creative and visual way of thinking. The numbers can be recognised using three senses: the visual shape of the object, the weight of the toys and the noise they make when shaken. The toys also help ‘Inversion’ associated with Dyslexia. Numbers that are often misinterperated backwards or upside down are made clearer in form with the ‘Dyslexables’.
These fun, multifunctional and attractive toys seek to make specialised learning tools desirable rather than filled with the stigma of dyslexics being ‘different’ from their peers. Give young dyslexic children independance in their learning and make the boring subjects fun!
Informed by education specialists Keith Brentnall and Jill Duncan.
