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Expert Resources: dyslexia


These are the items that relate to dyslexia found on the AbilityNet website. They may be factsheets, webinars, news stories, blog posts or reports.

  • How can digital technology help people with dyslexia?

    Alex.Barker | 26 Sep 2023
    Millions of people around the world have dyslexia. AbilityNet's Disability Consultant, Alex Baker, takes a look at how technology can help dyslexic people, whether that's in work, education or for personal use.
  • Free Webinar: Tech Tools for Dyslexia at work, in education and at home

    Freya Robinson | 15 Sep 2023
    Dyslexia is a learning difference that can affect, amongst other things, reading and writing skills, organisation skills, and the processing and remembering of information.
  • Voice Recognition - An Overview

    Alex.Barker | 11 Aug 2023
    This factsheet provides an overview of how you can use voice recognition. You can use voice recognition to control a smart home, instruct a smart speaker, and command phones and tablets. In addition, you can set reminders and interact hands-free with personal technologies. The most significant use...
  • Easy Read versions of free disability and technology factsheets now available

    Annie Mannion | 24 May 2023
    Download Easy Read formats of Dyslexia and technology, Sight loss and Computing and more free disability and technology factsheets from the AbilityNet website.
  • Dyslexia and Technology

    Alex.Barker | 17 May 2023
    Dyslexia is a learning difference that primarily affects the processes involved with fluent reading and writing. It is estimated that dyslexia affects approximately 1 in 10 people, with 1 in 25 classed as severely dyslexic. It is what we now recognise as a neurodivergent condition. Neurodivergence...
  • How to embrace autism, dyslexia, and neurodivergence in the workplace and higher education

    Kelly Chan | 23 Mar 2023
    We live in a neurodiverse population, which consists of both neurodivergent and neurotypical individuals. We wanted to share some resources to help you embrace neurodiversity at home, in the workplace and in education.    
  • Top tips for supporting your employees with dyslexia

    Robin Christopherson | 14 Dec 2021
    Discriminating against your employees with dyslexia has been against the law since the first disability discrimination legislation was introduced over 20 years ago. But it's in the news today as a result of Starbucks employee Meseret Kumulchew winning her disability discrimination case.
  • Dyslexia tools, software, and free resources

    Sophie Stevens | 03 Nov 2021
    During our recent webinar, Dafydd Henke-Reed shared his insights into top resources and tools, and how technology revolutionised his own experience of dyslexia. 
  • Making connections: Age UK partnership helps digitally excluded

    Kelly Chan | 02 Nov 2021
    AbilityNet volunteer Mick has unlocked the potential of a tablet for a military veteran with dyslexia through a local partnership with Age UK, Wiltshire. 
  • Free webinar: Top tips for dyslexia and technology

    Annie Mannion | 29 Sep 2021
    Learn from Dafydd about how technology has revolutionised his experience of dyslexia in AbilityNet's free webinar on Tuesday 5 October 2021.
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