The Possibilities of ICT Use for Compensation of Difficulties with Reading in Pupils with Dyslexia

摘要

The paper presents the possibilities of using ICT for compensation of difficulties with reading in pupils with dyslexia and during re-education. These include mainly text editing, use of different fonts, special educational software, improvement of teaching process, use of multimedia etc. Furthermore the paper presents the results of a research project focusing on a comparison of reading speed and efficiency (the number of mistakes) when using the standard writing fonts and OpenDyslexic font (a font created for dyslectics). The data has been collected using a standardized reading test, the results have been statistically processed.