Posted on 28/3/2022

Hope for children with dysorthography

Fondation Dora will support the development of a multi-platform writing aid software for individuals with dysorthography and/or dyslexia; the programme will be compatible with current academic accommodation practices. To date, there is no writing aid software suitably adapted for students with dysorthography. 

This new tool will include different modules of predictive text specifically designed for individuals with dysorthography. It will grant students a higher degree of autonomy in their daily writing tasks, whether at school, at home, in therapy sessions or in other situations. The programme will lighten the cognitive load of dual-tasking and, in certain cases, will enable students to be re-integrated into the conventional school system. 

The programme will be provided for free in specialized classrooms in French-speaking cantons.

Founded in 1991, the Icare research institute (Sierre, Switzerland) is a non-profit organization that designs and creates innovative software programmes in various fields and whose goal is to promote technological innovation.