Cognitive Impairments

Dyslexic students who are intellectually bright often don’t perform badly enough for a teacher to identify they have a learning disability. UoM student

Types of Cognitive Impairment

• Memory.
• Problem Solving.
• Attention, e.g. ADHD
• Reading, linguistic and verbal comprehension, e.g. dyslexia
• Mathematical comprehension
• Visual comprehension

Assistive Technologies

• Visual learning software
• Speech, spellchecker, e.g. TextHelp
• Text to voice, e.g. WYNNS

Barriers to Access

• Users may have trouble remembering the overall context of a web site or task.
• Users may make more errors than usual.
• Users may be easily distracted.
• Users may be have difficulty reading web content.

Example

• A user with dyslexia explains how it affacts her web usage. (Login required)