2 minute Dyslexia Screening Test
Taking the test is simple. There are 4 animations all set at different speeds.
Watch the 4 animations one at a time and make a note of at which animation speed you were able to “see” how many images were used to make this simple animation.
Make a note of the number and read and compare below.
There is no point in cheating because this not a game that you are trying to score highest at, it is a diagnostic test.
Speed 1
Speed 2
Speed 3
Speed 4
Results
Speed 1
The fastest animation. Very few people are able to “see” how many images were used to make this animation – all the ones I have tested proved to have significant reading problems.
Speed 2
The second fastest. Again, everyone I have tested have been proven to have some form of visual dyslexia.
Speed 3
Many people will be able to see the individual images as separate frames, you are most likely a good reader.
Speed 4
Congratulations. Images enter your brain at a fast speed, making it easy for you, I think, to understand written text easily.
Each animation is made from the same number of images
Dawn says,
My apps are a product of decades of knowledge and each aspect approved of by thousands as “student-friendly”. It was, therefore, a surprise to me to discover an aspect of how dyslexics perceive that I had never discovered before. Everything my colleagues and I know about dyslexics would indicate that this is correct. After all we use coloured overlays to help us read because it slows the message to the brain.
While I was testing the many animations, I needed for all four apps, I discovered that nearly every student with visual dyslexia, was unable to “see” a simple animation and instead saw it as a number of separate images, but every non-dyslexic brother, sister and parent absolutely saw it as an interesting animation.
One of my auspicious colleagues Professor John Stein who works at Oxford University in the UK says:
“Difficulty with animations in dyslexics are common because they have slower processing of motion signals, hence don't fill in the gaps between animations that a typical brain sees as motion.”
So, I have made this into a simple test. Start with the fastest animation “speed 1” and keep going until you can count the number of images used to make this animation. I predict that those, who like me, are able to count the images in the fastest animation will have reading and spelling issues.
So if you can see the images as a line of stills in the “speed 1” or “speed 2” please go find, on this site, the tick tests for dyslexia and dyspraxia, which are free. Then follow links to books etc. which will tell you much more. You will know if you, or your kids have either of these disorders for certain when reading these books.
Good luck and have fun.
Dawn Matthews