“I started predicting all the other words that would be in their head… we give them other words, like excited instead of happy.”
David Chalk · Dyslexia Explored · #189: Dyslexia, Building Businesses and Learning to Read at 62 with David Chalk
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What was described
Collects a child’s spoken words, feeds them to a language model to predict other words the child likely knows, then teaches synonyms to expand oral vocabulary
Said nearby on the same subject
“We usually pick just a couple of words, maybe three to five words per week... Everybody's helping this child practice just a few words so that they can get the number of repetitions they need.”
“We've created a lexicon of multi-sided management… here are the words we use and that we've invented, and the words we avoid because they have baked in the other model”