“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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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

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