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5 BEST Apps For DYSLEXIA (YOU NEED NOW) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  We have 5 best apps for dyslexia that you definitely need to
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  know. All that's coming up.
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  Hey guys, welcome back to the Aspy world.
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  My name is Dan, I have autism, ADHD, OCD and dyslexia and I
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  daily. All right, let's go with the
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  video guys. Welcome back.
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  How is it going, everybody? I yeah, I love doing videos on
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  different types of apps because I love apps and technology.
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  But if you guys are new to this channel, my name is Dan and this
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  is the apps. We will, but we think
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  differently daily. What's up?
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  OK, so basically I've done loads of videos on different types of
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  apps for I don't know I've done loads right, but in terms of
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  dyslexia, I haven't really done that many.
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  So I've got my iPhone right here right now, which is the new
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  iPhone that just came out actually.
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  So yeah, this is this is cool. I'm really, I'm really excited.
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  I'm using this new iPhone. It's kind of cool.
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  It's groovy and the cameras are great.
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  But that's beside the point. I actually have a video all
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  about how this iPhone, the latest iPhone is very good for
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  people on the autism spectrum and how this technology can
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  improve the lives of people on the spectrum.
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  So if you're interested in watching that, check out the
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  link in the description. It'll be there for you, right
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  then. So I wanted to talk about some
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  of the tools which I used when I was doing my university degree
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  and helping with my dyslexia. Because let's face it, having
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  dyslexia and going to university or doing school is really
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  difficult, right? And so I've made a list of stuff
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  that I use and stuff that I've just come across that are
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  actually really, really good. So without further ado, into it.
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  OK, so the first thing I'm going to talk about here right now is
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  text dictation software. Now if you're anything like me,
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  then you're going to have problems in trying to write down
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  things and you need help with speech and all that kind of
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  stuff. So what I do is I get my iPhone
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  and I open up a note and then I use the microphone and the
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  little button at the bottom and I can just talk to my phone and
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  it'll actually dictate what I'm talking and write it down in a
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  note format. And also not only that, if we
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  actually go to highlight a word and then you can actually scroll
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  and see speak. Just talk to my phone and
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  actually dictate what I'm talking and write it down in a
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  note for me. The cool thing about this is
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  that you can actually use this when you're in lectures to hold
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  it up to the the air and just hear what your lectures are
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  saying. And it's kind of like they're
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  making notes of you, which is a pretty good hack.
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  And I'm going to probably talk about that in a different video,
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  but that is typically the one of the most used functions on my
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  phone. I actually use it for pretty
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  much everything because the app is native to the iPhone and the
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  iPad. And so if you have these
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  devices, I'm sure it works on Android as well.
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  You're able to just speak freely and then you're able to actually
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  get a really good kind of rock solid digital note of what you
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  want to say. I use it for everything, right?
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  Text messages to emails to even taking notes like you just saw.
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  OK, yes, so #2 is an app I came across called crazy cursive.
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  Now cursive writing is quite difficult because it's kind of
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  like script writing, right? And we all know what kind of
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  what cursive writing is. So check out this little clip of
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  me now. So this is me actually going
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  through crazy cursive, which is the, the app we're using right
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  now to kind of just show you guys how, how it works.
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  So, yeah, you basically make an account on on this actual on
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  this app and then you go through and you can just take a word or
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  a letter. And for instance, if we're just
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  doing a letter, you kind of like it shows you what to do and you
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  just drag your pencil down. And so it shows you how to
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  actually draw the the cursive version of the letter you're
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  using, which is pretty good. And it also says it out loud for
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  you. So you know which, which word it
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  is. But The thing is, it gets you
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  used to that technique. I'm sure this is going to be
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  really, really good on an iPad with the Apple Pencil where
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  you're like, you know, using that kind of cursive or any kind
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  of, you know, good stylus on a tablet will give you that real
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  life feel like you're writing it on paper, which I sound really,
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  really good. This app is called crazy Cursive
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  and this is crazy cursive light. There is a paid version, I
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  believe, but I'll leave all the links for it in the description
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  below so that you guys can get access to all of these apps.
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  You know that I'm talking about in this video, in case you
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  think, Oh, that's a good one. Done, check it out.
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  OK, so the next one I'm going to talk about is writing wizard.
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  Now handwriting is really my handwriting is terrible, right?
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  It's absolutely terrible. I never had any kind of luck
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  doing it. It was always really rubbish
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  really. And and you know, I, I tried and
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  tried and never really worked. But this actual app, as you can
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  see in this video, actually shows you the how to draw the
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  letter. And then it also tells you the
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  letter once you're completely drawing it.
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  It kind of says whatever is this one, you know, if it's A or B or
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  whatever, it will tell you the actual letter.
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  And then you can like play a game by like moving it around
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  and doing cool crazy stuff, which is pretty amazing because
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  it kind of gamifies the whole experience.
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  But it helps you learn the actual, the actual letter and
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  the words whilst actually drawing and writing them out.
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  So you get like more of a defined version of it because it
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  had these lines of like separation of where you actually
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  draw the word, which I found really, really helpful.
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  OK, so the next one I'm going to talk about is Simplex Light.
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  There is a paid version of Simplex, I think, but I'm
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  actually just using the light version, which is just pretty
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  much the best one to do because it's free at the end of the day.
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  So basically you you pick a, you pick this basically pick a word
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  or a letter or what you want to do.
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  And this one is word list 1. So this is like a list of words
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  and it basically says a phrase of what you should use the word
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  for. And it's a 3 letter word and it
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  says like whatever, like, I don't know, like find my way.
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  So you have to do like WAY. And then it just basically gives
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  you a, a score and it tells you if you're doing it perfect or
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  doing it bad, but it kind of helps preempt you.
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  One thing I do like about this app is that it shows you where
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  all the vowels are, which is really, really helpful.
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  But also it tells you the, the word in a sentence.
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  It doesn't just tell you a random word.
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  So it talks really good, it's really good at helping you
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  understand how to talk properly and using the right words and
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  the right sentences, which I found absolutely fantastic.
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  Right now, last one I'm going to talk about #5 here is 1 called
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  Me Books. Now Me Books is a reading app.
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  You basically create an account on this app and as you log in
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  there, you can see there's loads of different types of books in
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  there. And what happens is this app
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  actually helps you with the preset books that have pretty
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  much, you know, a lot of books for kids.
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  And this is mainly an app for kids who are struggling on the,
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  on the reading skills or writing skills with the dyslexia.
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  And basically what it does is the app helps you read the
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  books. It kind of reads with you and
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  reads for you and helps you breakdown the words and the
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  sentences, which is really, really good.
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  And it kind of highlights different words as well.
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  And one of the things I found really interesting about this is
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  that I had nothing this interactive when I was trying to
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  learn to read. And it's just a big stretch and
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  a big struggle when I was growing up.
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  So now having an app like this is amazing.
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  Now there is a free version and a paid version.
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  I highly recommend checking out the free versions.
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  I've linked all of the free versions down below.
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  Some of them you have to create an account with, some of them
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  you don't, but these are the best ones that I found for
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  dyslexia. Now if you think that these are
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  really awesome, please share this video on Facebook and
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  Twitter. If you have anything to add, any
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  other apps that you could suggest, put them in a comment
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  down below because I read every single one.
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  Give this video a thumbs up if you found value.
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  I'll see you in the next one guys, peace.