Dyslexia: Increasing the Letter Spacing Can Help Readability

A French-Italian research team, jointly headed by Johannes Ziegler of the Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive (CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université) has determined that increasing the spacing between characters and words in a text improves the speed and quality of dyslexic children's reading according to a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS).