Sawaru Glyph is not merely a tool that transforms characters into three-dimensional forms. This tool combines unique technologies to facilitate effective multisensory learning through haptic reading.
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Font Design Optimized for haptic Reading
Sawaru Glyph utilizes a specially designed font for haptic reading. This font emphasizes the structural features of each alphabet character, enabling efficient haptic recognition through the fingertips. Accurate haptic feedback of letter shapes further promotes stable memory formation from letter forms to word forms.
Visual-audio system that promotes the integration of letter and sound memory.
A uniquely developed visual-audio system promotes the formation of integrated memory for spelling and sound. Immediately after viewing a video where the spelling of a word appears in sync with its pronunciation, learners engage in haptic reading of three-dimensional letter spellings. This process facilitates the formation of integrated memory connecting spelling and sound.
The speed of the visual and audio components, as well as the timing of haptic reading, has been adjusted based on the results of multiple tests conducted with children with dyslexia, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of multisensory learning.
Stepwise haptic Reading Program
The haptic reading program is designed step by step, using phonics rules and syllable structures to calculate the “complexity” of words. Learning begins with simple spellings and gradually advances to more complex ones. Exposure to high-frequency and image-rich basic words strengthens word-form memory, and tactile reading of imaginative sentences helps establish a stable reading and writing network in the brain.
Analysis and Extraction of Image-Rich Words
Computer analysis selects high-frequency and image-rich words for use in the teaching materials. Research has shown that haptic reading of image-rich words can influence RAN (Rapid Automatized Naming), a foundational skill for reading and writing. haptic reading of such words is believed to enhance the connection between visual and phonological representations through meaning. In Sawaru Glyph’s text materials, illustrations accompany sentences composed of these words, allowing haptic reading to activate semantic memory.
These technological innovations are protected by international copyrights.