What is it like to have dyslexia? Animations & Illustrations

This is a series of animations taken from a project aimed at helping people to find out what it is like to have dyslexia.

The animations were created by illustration students working with health professionals as part of our new Health Design Technology Institute.

The DVD 'Demystifying Visual Dyslexia' can be bought on the Coventry University website. It is just one of the great examples of our students using their skills to help people.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• dyslexia
• animation
• illustration
• 3d
• visualisations
• coventry
• university
• graphicdesign
• health
• visual

[mariachongabdullah]

Could I use your video for my lecture on dyslexia? I would really appreciate if you allow me to share this video with students in my class. Thanks.

[CovStudent]

@mariachongabdullah Yes feel free, thanks for asking!

[OrlaIreland92]

I have dyslexic and I have never once seen words move around...

[junleven]

good animations & illustrations..

[mjm8030]

or the other way around what dyslexia roots is a total self confusion and loss of awareness by deep part of the brain are not constructed the way most other peoples brains are and it cause the language task to be much harder i believe i saw a report somewhere where people with dyslexia require more energy to do the same task as the students that do not have dyslexia

[mjm8030]

this a conman misconception if one could see all the letter in the improper way they would

just simply learn them that way they see it like if you were to look at the color blue and saw it red if your told it was blue you would see red but know its blue by your memory dyslexia is much more complex then just visualization its more about processing information given and the brain ability integrate it into a form that make sense does not work well there also physical things effected by the brain

[Imasilverwolf]

@autogurl101 my mom is the same. i feel really dumb... i dont have that bad of dislexia, i just see doublles in letterrs and i mispell things, and sometimes it looks like the room is spinning around...... xp

[MyBloodyValentine011]

@autogurl101 for me, words will jumble up, they shine, the swirl in like a whirlwind until the y dissappear, words fall off my paper,I see the words flipped and on the other side of the paper.sometimes they become blocks of colour or words dissappaer and shift to places on my paper. they jumble up. they would squeeze together.words would'nt saty still,sometimes they look like spiders and I hate it at times. my teachers would yell at me when I was 8 years old. I was called dumb, lazy and stupid.

[MyBloodyValentine011]

@OrlaIreland92 thats because it depends on what type of dyslexia you have. some can see words moving, others just have trouble not misinterpreting the letters on the page. it also is to do with how severe your dyslexia is. mine is pretty bad, even 9 years of therapy, if I don't pay attention hard enough, the words just keep on moving

[Rachelandjoshp]

I hate dyslexia that is part of the reason I wear glasses

[JCUD70]

i hate dyslexia im a case 7

[JCUD70]

@JoeKun10 piece of shit

[VeeelzHD]

@autogurl101

Hi i'm 16 and have dyslexia,try placing a transparent and tinted sheet of paper(like a see-through purple piece of paper) over a book page and see if it helps,it really helped me with reading.

[autogurl101]

I have dyslexia. It's harder then you think. Colors cover the page, words double themselves then move to strange places on the page and sometimes even go off the page. Words change sizes and shake. Letters switch places. My brain will forget were I was reading and I have to start over. Worst off all my parents don't know about it so they think I just don't try at school and signed my up for a stupid help place that can't even help me because of my dyslexia. It's hard I have one of the worst cas