DyslexiQuiz

Inspiration

Children with dyslexia face challenges in spelling and reading, often with limited resources available for their assistance. The idea to create a quiz for them emerged from a shared commitment to making a positive impact on their educational journey. Our aim is to provide these children with an engaging tool that not only supports their learning but also promotes equal access to education. The innovative approach we took is designed to captivate dyslexic children's attention, offering a more interactive and enjoyable way to learn. Ultimately, our project may empower these young learners to overcome obstacles and thrive in their academic pursuits.

What it does

DyslexiQuiz is essentially a quiz application implementing various dyslexic-friendly features to encourage the learning of spelling in children with dyslexia. In our application, we focused on utilizing an OpenDyslexic font, typically accepted as a font more accepted by the dyslexic community. The application also has an EasyReader feature, which enables the user to speak any word they want to learn how to spell into the app to be displayed in the OpenDyslexic font. Furthermore, the application allows the user to track their commitment to learning through the profile page, where they can check off each day they study to accumulate achievements and track their growth.

How we built it

First, we meticulously researched different practices for the best user-interface for kids with dyslexia. In order to implement these practices, we built this app using Swift and Xcode. Moreover, we added various features such as custom fonts and a tab view to be able to navigate across different pages in the application.

Challenges we ran into

One of our biggest challenges when it came to the functionality of our application was the text-to-speech aspect. After trying countless different implementations, watching multiple how-to videos, and searching through code from other applications, the text-to-speech never worked the correct way. Without this, we won’t be fully satisfied with our app, which is why we will continue to do more research on this and make sure we figure it out. The custom font also was somewhat difficult to implement, but after doing research on the topic, we were able to figure it out, which was essential to our app.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

My team and I placed a strong emphasis on equity in the technology industry. We performed extensive research on ways to make the user-interface of our app dyslexia friendly and we implemented these accommodations within our app. As a result, we are proud of our research in this field. Moreover, we are also proud of our newfound proficiency in Swift, as all of our team excels using this software.

What we learned

We gained proficiency and learned new skills within Swift UI through online resources and workshops. On the behavioral side, our team honed in on our communication and teamwork skills. For example, despite encountering several challenges during the app development process, we utilized open communication skills to thoroughly talk out the problems and help one another.

What's next for DyslexiQuiz

We have big plans for the future of DyslexiQuiz. Our next step is going to be ensuring that we are able to implement the text-to-speech feature so that the kids can have any of the words on the screen read to them in case they are having trouble reading it or they just want to make sure they’re pronouncing the words correctly. We will also implement levels to the flashcards section, so once a kid gets all 5 cards right in one section, they move on to a different category which is slightly harder, and this will be tracked on the progress tracking tab.

Built With

• swift