SAN ANTONIO — A breakthrough for people struggling with dyslexia. It is a condition that makes language hard to work with and can dramatically impact every aspect of someone's life. But a new program using AI aims to change all that.
The program is called Dysolve AI. It targets the brain's ability to process sounds, words, sentences and meaning, which all encompass Dyslexia.
"I was very, like, isolated. And I felt like I was, like, trapped in my own head because I couldn't communicate with any of my friends or even my parents," said Meghan Odell who was diagnosed with dyslexia in the second grade.
She says it made learning in school nearly impossible.
"I was putting all my energy into understanding the first sentence, and then once I could finally understand it, then the teacher stopped talking, so I didn't understand what was else said," Odell said.
Dysolve AI generates interactive verbal games customized to each student.
"It is just to really isolate the processes that have to be analyzed so that then dissolve AI, then will use the data to build the next game, the next game," Dr. Coral Hoh, the founder of Dysolve AI said.
The Yale Center For Dyslexia and Creativity says 20 percent of the U.S. suffers from dyslexia. That is one out of every five Americans. Dyslexia also represents as much as 90 percent of all people with learning disabilities, and is the most common of all neuro-cognitive disorders.
That last one is why the creators of Dysolve AI say using AI with games is so important.
"All the decisions are made super fast. And that's why you need a computer system to do it. A human cannot do it," Dr. Hoh said.
For Odell it was a gamechanger.
"I noticed that my communication increased first by just people's reactions to me actually talking. They actually were able to understand what I was saying for the first time in my life," Odell said.