The start of a new semester is an important time for both education professionals and their students. It's the period that we see learners settle into new classes, grades and schools, and where we see a key focus in these students’ lives change from play to work. It's a crucial developmental time integrating with the idea of learning again and re-forming the rhythms and routines that guide them as they develop a new standard of understanding.
Creating the foundation for a year of learning
A new academic year brings with it a series of challenges: it's during this part of the school year that we're best placed to set up support that helps students with day-to-day reading and learning. This means a race to find reading solutions that provide targeted support before a new school year of reading anxiety can really take root and progress can be slowed or impeded.
For students with dyslexia and literacy differences, returning to class can feel difficult. Underdeveloped reading skills and a lack of confidence in their ability impact their progress dramatically. It also fosters the development of mental health conditions like anxiety and impostor syndrome and has a negative effect on their relationship with education in general.
Every year, students with dyslexia and literacy differences face these challenges, and education institutions all over the country rise to the challenge to support their reading needs. Many learners are already behind, because of how education was forced over the past few years to keep students and staff safe. These start-of-semester challenges require solutions that work—so we can get students back on track and set to achieve their potential.
And that's where Reader 2 comes in.
Take on start-of-semester challenges with award-winning assistive tech
Reader 2 is an innovative and intuitive device that lets learners with literacy differences like dyslexia access texts in ways that they couldn’t alone. It’s a pen scanner that allows users to listen to the words on the page using text-to-speech—an awesome support for developing an understanding and fluency in their language skills. And with built-in dictionary support and transfer-capable storage, it becomes a holistic reading and learning device system that can make a huge amount of difference in a learner’s educational life.
If there are learners who do have dyslexia—or are even showing signs of dyslexia and are in a pre-assessment phase—C-Pen Reader 2 can be a huge boost to support and help them strengthen their skills at the same time. It’s about developing and assisting learning while reading. Many sources indicate that it’s learners with neurodivergent minds and special educational needs who have seen the worst effects of the pandemic in terms of confidence, reading gaps and expected progress, and to grow their abilities, these learners need to be supported with device solutions that work, first-time and consistently.
Reader 2 frees up educator time spent on supporting individual reading needs and allows students to grow as independent learners, affording them a way to problem-solve and self-support that can grow confidence in their own developing abilities. It's not just a reading support device, it‘s a means of opening up the curriculum across the board.
With the start of every new semester, educators face the same challenges. Reader 2 has the power to change the narrative for hundreds of thousands of learners and open learning across all areas of the curriculum.
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