A gift for children with Dyslexia
Problem
Children with dyslexia often experience negative behaviors and personality issues, which can significantly impact their quality of life. However, in China, many parents are not fully aware of this condition and do not understand the learning difficulties their children face.
Solution
I developed a reading application with an auxiliary tool designed to make reading easier for children with dyslexia. This app not only facilitates reading but also includes training exercises. In addition to benefiting children, it helps parents understand their child's challenges better by observing their reading behaviors.
Background
In China, parents often expect their children to achieve high academic goals regardless of their abilities. This puts immense pressure on children, especially those with dyslexia, leading to feelings of unhappiness and anxiety.
Research
I started with preliminary research to understand what is Dyslexia, parental knowledge and challenges and current professioanl training methods.
And here are the findings:
Scientific instruction for parents is necessary
Parents of children with neurodevelopmental disorders might themselves have weaknesses at the cognitive and behavioural.
Abnormal Cognitive Ability
The difficulties of children with dyslexia are not caused by hearing or vision defects, and are not the result of retarded intellectual development, nor are they due to lack of learning motivation or educational opportunities, but are related to abnormal cognitive ability.
Reading Practice for children is important
Though there is no cure for it, a good parenting and reading environment will reduce the severity of symptoms in children with dyslexia.
Serious ripple effect
Children with dyslexia had the personality characteristics tendency of psychoticism, neuroticism, introversion, emotionally unstable, and more behavioral problems.
Then I conducted an in-depth interview with our target users to uncover their emotions and behavioral patterns concerning existing challenges and the potential for a digital healthcare collaboration platform.
Pains
- Limited resources available to assist children exhibiting symptoms of dyslexia.
- Minimal effectiveness observed in existing training methods.
- Limited availability of time to take her child to the hospital.
Gains
- Desires easier access to authoritative information.
- Aims for her child to genuinely enjoy reading.
- Open to embracing new products to support her child.
Q: Do you know about Dyslexia? How do you know it?
"Yes, I've observed that Rosie often substitutes synonymous words and expressions when reading. Additionally, she struggles with distinguishing between certain words like "how," "now," "when," "then," "here," and "there".
"I first learned about dyslexia from other parents, and later I conducted extensive research online. However, I found limited resources available in Chinese about dyslexia. The information I found was not helpful in assisting Rosie with distinguishing between characters like 丿, 扌, and 丶".
Q: Reading Practice for children is important
"I accompanied her to undergo dyslexia tests on various foreign websites".
"I've been using physical objects like 'belly' and 'butt' to help her distinguish between the sounds of 'b' and 'd'. Additionally, I make it a habit to read books to her every night before bedtime".
Analysis
Insight & Ideation
Children with Dyslexia don’t want to read because they cannot understand what the words convey, so they need the help of an assistant when they are reading.
Easy to read
The product provides kids with auxiliary tools and simple interaction, which makes them read easier.
Professional
The settings of the product meet the demand of language training.
Attractive
The product can attract kids with their interests.
Evaluating the progress and track records of children’s reading is difficult but necessary.
Report
The constant reading record of children and data analysis can be a wealth of information.
Feedback
Parents can send records to professional doctors and language trainers and get professional advice.
Emotional support
Parents may find solace from sharing emotions and information with others.
Solution
User Flow
Auxiliary Tool
Attractive
Interesting Training
Therefore, I break down Chinese characters into their components, allowing users to identify each part individually. Then, like assembling "building blocks," they piece these parts together to form complete characters. This approach enhances the enjoyment of reading and improves memory retention.
For Parents
