Can People With Dyslexia Read With Easy on iPhones?

Here is interesting information from Freakonomis.com concerning people with dyslexia reading on the iPhone":

Dyslexics face a number of reading challenges, but everyone’s favorite Apple gadget offers some surprising solutions. Howard Hill, a longtime dyslexic, recently read The Count of Monte Cristo on his iPhone, and was surprised by how easy it was. The spacing has something to do with it. “Many dyslexics have problems with ‘crowding,’ where they’re distracted by the words surrounding the word they’re trying to read,” John Stein, professor of neuroscience at Oxford University, told Hill. “When reading text on a small phone, you’re reducing the crowding effect.”

An Interesting Quote

I was reading the book Freefall by Joseph E. Stiglitz (Nobel Prize winner in Economics)and came across the following words:

"Quite often in science certain assumptions we so strongly hold or are so ingrained in the thinking that no one realize they are only assumptions." (p. 242)

I've been thinking of that idea more broadly for quite a while. In fact, I'm becoming more and more very suspicious of "conventional wisdom" because the foundation for that "wisdom" many times is nothing but assumptions.

What Parents Can Do About Bullying

I finally found an article that provides ideas about parental roles in addressing bullying.