Integrity in Education. Education Week American Education News Site of Record. Merriam-Webster's Word Central. Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary. Tiblo Lets Dyslexic Kids Snap Words And Sounds Together Like Legos | Co. Design. My earlier post on Dyslexie, a typeface optimized for dyslexic readers, got me curious about other dyslexia-related design solutions. A particularly interesting one is Tiblo, an "open-ended learning aid" developed by Sumit Pandey and Swati Srivastava to help dyslexic kids become more facile with words, letters, and phonemes by "connecting" them physically like puzzle pieces. Each colorful Tiblo is a "modular interactive electronic block" that can record 10 seconds of audio, play it back, and snap with other blocks to form syntactical patterns based on the meaning the kid has assigned to the block. (The blocks are also designed with a broad gridlike surface that kids or teachers can decorate with pictures, letters, pushpins, or anything else they like.)
If a child is having trouble reading a written word or sentence, its component parts can be assigned to Tiblo blocks and sounded out individually in the teacher's voice or the child's -- and then reconnected in other orientations.