Defeat Dyslexia Emily, Etta and Lola

St Marylebone School

About UsWHO: A team of inspiring human beans.WHAT: An app to help struggling learners.WHEN: To be released in June.WHY: Our team knows the struggle, and wants to helpHOW: By releasing an app making dyslexia easier to manage

Our App As a team, we want to effectively help young people

struggling with dyslexia. As the majority of our team is dyslexic, we know the struggle people can face. Our team is hard-working and motivated and we will strive to gain as much as we can out our

experience in the Apps for Good process.

The Problem We Are Solving

We know that getting young children to work can be hard a fun app will get them away from the

boring textbooks and on to the app where learning is fun.

Our UsersWe have a wide range of users. Although our app is for children

it is the parents after all who would have to buy the app. We know our users well. Children need engaging throughout the courses but as they start to grow up we will use different methods to help them learn.

Parents will receive weekly emails on their

child’sprogress

Survey feedback

How We Are Different From Our Competitors

Our app is different from all the other learning apps out there. Firstly, we provide a personal

learning environment where the child is taught using dyslexic techniques that will help with their learning. Secondly, we have a friendly character who can help along the way designed by you who

will give you tips and tricks.

Our App’s Design

home screen

test settings lessons

test screens

score 80%-score 80%+ finished lesson

lesson screens

Screen Map

Home screen and test screen example

Learning tasks homepage and reading example task

Writing and spelling task example screens

At the beging of the app younger children are given the option to design a character to help them as they proceed through the levels, all they need to do is press the question mark button to get a tip from their personalised friend.

Our marketing strategies

We will use schools to promote our app, advertising in school newsletters and billboards in order to attract our target audience. As well as that, we are hoping that users of the app will send it to others who know/have dyslexia so that our app can be the beneficial to the most amount of people.

FeasibilityOur product will cost £1.99 every year as a yearly contract. This is because we need the support for professionals who would take part in research to produce the best learning techniques and lessons

for all our students. However although we do charge this amount it is so much cheaper than

different books etcetera, but will be so much more personal to your childs learning difficulties.

We are very passionate about are app idea and we hope you will see the massive impact this could have on people everywhere. Thank you!

Dyslexia

sequences

dates

coordination problems

handwriting difficulties

memory

MotorControl

difficulty copying

reading losing place in text

moving or overlapping in text

needing to re-readcan’t remember

what words look like

difficulty ‘hearing’ sounds

similar sounds causing confusion

find background noise distracting

problems note taking

can’t find the right word

organisational problems

difficulty getting ideas on paper

difficulty with telling the time

left/right confusion

gets lost easily

spelling

listening

Writing

Spatial/temporal

phone numbers

alphabet

times tables