A few months ago I was laying in bed watching the Today show and Henry Winkler was on. I always liked the Fonz. He was on to talk about his new books, Here's Hank about a 2nd grade boy and things that happened to him. Then he mentioned it, dyslexia. Hank Zipzer has dyslexia and the stories are based on Henry Winkler as a kid. I did not know that.
As Mr. Winkler was talking about the books he was talking about the font that the book uses, called dyslexie and that it is weighted for easier reading. I IMMEDIATELY bought both books on Amazon, and I couldn't wait to take a look at these. They came in and my daughter sat and read. She read this chapter book better then she read a very easy K level book. I was amazed.
Turns out this font was designed by Christian Boer, who you can probably guess is also dyslexic. I would love to meet him someday and thank him. My daughter started having confidence again, because of this font.
You can download the font for free here, and there are even instructions to teach you how to change the font on all your websites. I did this for my daughter on her computer and she gave me a big hug and said "Thank you Mommy." It is the little things.
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