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We know that, conservatively, 10% of the population struggles to read; we know that research-based reading programs help significantly; we know that the kinds of problems that challenge readers are many and vary substantially; we know that there is a percentage of students who, even when taught within a research-based reading program, continue to struggle with acquiring fluid reading skills; and we know that how we teach reading and reading skills is highly determined by the printing press.\",\"type\":\"text\",\"version\":1}],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"version\":1,\"textFormat\":0,\"textStyle\":\"\"},{\"children\":[],\"direction\":null,\"format\":\"\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"version\":1,\"textFormat\":0,\"textStyle\":\"\"},{\"children\":[{\"detail\":0,\"format\":0,\"mode\":\"normal\",\"style\":\"\",\"text\":\"This knowing drives the development of our app, CogniLens. We leave a number of assumptions off the table, such as that reading should progress from left to right horizontally. One feature in our app allows the reader to read vertically, significantly reducing the visual stress on the student who has difficulty pulling horizontally into their visual field one word after another from an ever-changing field of words. With 15 different features available in any combination desired and changeable, at any time, at the will of the reader, we put the reader in charge of their visual experience.\",\"type\":\"text\",\"version\":1},{\"type\":\"linebreak\",\"version\":1},{\"type\":\"linebreak\",\"version\":1},{\"detail\":0,\"format\":0,\"mode\":\"normal\",\"style\":\"\",\"text\":\"An example for students who have substantial difficulty with memory, particularly the memory needed to associate a discrete sound with a symbol or series of symbols, such as remembering the many ways that the long sound of /a/ can be represented by letters, our app offers a color coding, thus reducing notably the memory load.\",\"type\":\"text\",\"version\":1}],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"version\":1,\"textFormat\":0,\"textStyle\":\"\"},{\"children\":[{\"type\":\"linebreak\",\"version\":1},{\"detail\":0,\"format\":0,\"mode\":\"normal\",\"style\":\"\",\"text\":\"At Cognition Labs, we wish to be at the forefront of changing how we think about reading, not forsaking what we already have learned, but opening the space to think about how different brains might adapt to very personalized reading experiences, and even how they might be changed.\",\"type\":\"text\",\"version\":1}],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"version\":1,\"textFormat\":0,\"textStyle\":\"\"}],\"direction\":\"ltr\",\"format\":\"\",\"indent\":0,\"type\":\"root\",\"version\":1}}","itemId":"2419c48e-0a1b-4c51-8a14-5f3484e09405","fieldSchemaId":"3084d9ba-ab55-4e5a-931b-b9db3d09105f"},{"id":"8e0661e0-14bf-468d-b051-a323f3283b0a","value":"Why Is This the Right Time for Our Startup?","itemId":"2419c48e-0a1b-4c51-8a14-5f3484e09405","fieldSchemaId":"f2ba59b9-49cc-4ec6-9416-bda99d4c8383"},{"id":"1e215f07-a8b9-4c1b-8987-771d7e6288cb","value":"2026-05-22","itemId":"2419c48e-0a1b-4c51-8a14-5f3484e09405","fieldSchemaId":"b7712ee6-f9fd-4781-8c5c-e7e10ce8f81e"},{"id":"934edcef-61b8-469a-877b-fcfc55f1e775","value":"EdTech","itemId":"2419c48e-0a1b-4c51-8a14-5f3484e09405","fieldSchemaId":"fa3ae83b-afa1-443f-925c-ba60dfc8f12e"},{"id":"a3aed1ae-0413-4ca2-bb46-d04b625c361d","value":"{\"image\":\"7809fff210cd726ebb0c8a0dfbf822fc21de2472\",\"imageThumbnail\":\"7809fff210cd726ebb0c8a0dfbf822fc21de2472\",\"originalImageHeight\":450,\"originalImageWidth\":800,\"altText\":\"\",\"fileName\":\"Purple_clock.png\"}","itemId":"2419c48e-0a1b-4c51-8a14-5f3484e09405","fieldSchemaId":"1f58afa6-2748-4188-b4a4-f1e54e37eca9"}]}}}},"slugByItemId":{"c3cabdd7-2b1c-4652-ab7a-88ab3ff30b2f":"stop-fixing-the-learner-fix-the-environment","9c6f54c7-7854-4bb3-a09e-40b9a94e39c0":"educational-apps-must-do-more-than-entertain","7c10a08b-d604-4d4d-a009-2400c53b6b59":"a-new-definition-of-dylsexia","58dbeb6d-bb18-4710-a095-0793052324e2":"in-support-of-collecting-students-phones","33b2fd76-dbb6-46ec-b4b1-6dbcfbe85334":"auditory-processing-vs-auditory-memory","f76b0a6f-5281-4e92-b7a1-6738c22c385e":"the-hidden-strengths-behind-struggling-readers","635b4e18-0c9c-4ab7-a4db-9ca462c343f3":"early-thoughts-on-visual-and-auditory-processing","6937a4cd-d98c-46fd-bd44-ba6d4e14fbca":"when-reading-is-also-a-visual-challenge","6efcaa37-5ff5-4b38-ba5d-77d638c12cf8":"working-memory-and-learning","fbc6a28a-7357-4080-9a6b-f12f3034426d":"adjusting-the-text-research-on-supporting-dyslexic-readers","2419c48e-0a1b-4c51-8a14-5f3484e09405":"why-is-this-the-right-time-for-our-startup"}}