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

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  So you have 5 best apps for dyslexia that you definitely
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  need to 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
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  All right, let's come with the video, guys.
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  Welcome back. How is it going everybody?
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  I yeah, I love doing videos on different types of apps because
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  I love apps and technology. But if you guys are new to this
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  channel, my name is Dan and this is the apps.
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  We will, but we think differently daily.
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  What's up different? Think of FAM.
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  If you haven't already, go and download my free PDF.
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  Don't forget to go and get it. OK.
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  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.
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  But in terms of 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, But that's beside the
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  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 spectrum.
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  So if you're interested in watching that, check out a link
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  in the description. It'll be that 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 during 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, let's
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  get into it. OK.
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  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, you know,
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  write down things and you know you need help with speech and
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  all that kind of stuff. So what I do is I get my iPhone
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  and I open up notes 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 making notes to you,
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  which is pretty good hack. And I'm going to probably talk
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  about that in a different video, but that is typically the one of
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  the most used functions on my phone.
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  I actually use it for pretty much everything because the app
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  is native to the iPhone and the iPad.
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  And so if you have these devices, I'm sure it works on
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  Android as well. You're able to just speak freely
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  and then you're able to actually get a really good kind of rock
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  solid digital note of what you want to say.
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  I use it for everything, right? Text messages, emails to even
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  taking notes like you just saw. OK, so #2 is an app I came
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  across called Crazy Cursive. Now, cursive writing is quite
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  difficult because it's kind of like script writing, right?
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  And we all know kind of what cursive writing is.
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  So check out this little clip of me now.
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  So this is me actually going through Crazy Cursive, which is
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  the the app we're using right now to kind of just show you
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  guys how how it works. So yeah, you basically make an
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  account on on this actual, on this app.
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  And then you go through and you can just take a word or letter.
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  And for instance, we're just doing a letter you kind of like
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  it shows you what to do and you just drag your pencil down.
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  And so it shows you how to actually draw the, the cursive
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  version of the letter you're using, which is pretty good.
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  And it also says it out loud for you, so you know which which
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  word it 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 on paper, which I found really,
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  really good. This app is called Crazy Cursive
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  and it's this is Crazy cursive light.
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  There is a paid version, I believe, but I'll leave all the
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  links for it in the description below so that you guys can get
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  access to all of these apps, you know that I'm talking about in
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  this video, in case you think, oh, that's a good one.
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  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. And I never had any kind of luck
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  doing it. It was always really rubbish,
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  really. And you know, I tried and tried
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  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 also tells you the letter once you're
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  completely drawing it. It kind of says what whatever it
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  is, this one you know, if it's A or B or whatever, it will tell
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  you the actual letter. And then you can like play a
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  game by like moving it around and doing cool crazy stuff.
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  Which is pretty amazing because it kind of gamifies the whole
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  experience, but it helps you learn the actual, the actual
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  letter and the words whilst actually drawing and writing
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  them out. So you get like more of a
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  defined version of it because it had these lines of like
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  separation of where you actually draw the word, which I found
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  really, really helpful, Okay. So the next one I'm going to
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  talk about is Simplex Lite. There is a paid version of
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  Simplex I think, but I'm actually just using the Lite
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  version, which is just pretty much the best one to do because
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  it's free at the end of the day. So basically you pick a, you
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  pick this, basically pick a word or letter or what you want to do
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  and this one is word list one. So this is like a list of words
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  and it basically says a phrase of what you should use the the
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  word for and it's a 3 letter word and it says like you know
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  whatever, like you know I don't know like find my way so you
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  have to do like WAY and then it just basically gives you a a.
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  Score and it tells you if you're doing it perfect or doing it
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  bad. But it kind of helps preempt
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  you. One thing I do like about this
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  app is that it shows you where all the vowels are, which is
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  really, really helpful. But also it tells you the the
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  word in a sentence. It doesn't just tell you a
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  random word. So it talks really good.
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  It's really good at helping you understand how to talk properly
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  and using the right words in the right sentences, which I found
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  absolutely fantastic. Right.
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  The last one I'm going to talk about #5 here is 1 called Me
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  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 are 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 dyslexia.
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  And basically what it does is the app helps you read the 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 a big struggle
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  when I was growing up. So now having an app like this
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  is amazing. Now there is a free version and
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  a paid version. I highly recommend checking out
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  the free versions. I've linked all of the free
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  versions down below. Some of them you have to create
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  an account with, some of them you don't, But these are the
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  best ones that I found for dyslexia.
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  Now if you think that these are really awesome, please share
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  this video on Facebook and Twitter if you have anything to
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  add. Any other apps that you could
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  suggest putting a comment down below Because I read every
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  single one. Give this video thumbs up if you
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  found value. I'll see you in the next one
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  guys. Peace.