Many of the problems that dyslexic students experience when learning come from the following difficulties:
- Difficulties in reading and writing
- Difficulties in recognizing or confusion between letters or familiar words
- Mispronunciations
- Difficulty in carrying out instructions
- Directional confusion
- Difficulty achieving automaticity (result of learning, repetition, and practicing)
- Problems with sequencing
- Difficulty organizing work Multimedia has the potential to reduce or even remove such problems.
Examples of media include: text, sound, graphics, video and animation. Combined together, the potential of multimedia to enhance learning has been for some dyslexic people the turning point in their lives. No longer are dyslexic students required to read and study pages and pages of text. For example, learning materials, containing text, can be supplemented with and/or represented in graphical and auditory forms. Dyslexic students are able to comprehend meaning from what is being spoken about a picture.
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