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Lexplore

place Sweden

How can we ensure young people with dyslexia get the help they need?

Through eyetracking and artificial intelligence Lexplore makes it possible to identify children with dyslexia in time, allowing for effective early intervention.

HundrED 2018
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Overview

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HundrED 2018

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2016

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September 2017
We got a fast and objective result with Lexplore that the special education teachers and classroom teachers could work with and analyze. This made it possible to do the right interventions.

About the innovation

What is Lexplore?

Dyslexia is one of the most common language based learning difficulties and can affect up to 10% of the population. Without adequate support, dyslexia can have long term consequences on a child’s life, affecting their learning in the classroom, as well as their self-confidence and future life chances. Children diagnosed with dyslexia early in their school lives have more time and opportunity for the right interventions and support that will allow them to flourish.Although early diagnosis is important, existing methods can be very time consuming and resource intensive as they are carried out manually.

Lexplore was developed by Swedish researchers Mattias Nilsson Benfatto and Gustaf Öqvist Seimyr, scientists at Karolinska Institutet.It's ascreening tool that makes it possible to identify children with reading and writing difficulties early on, using cloudanalytics, artifical intelligenceand eye tracking technology to help screen for the likelihood of dyslexia or related learning difficulties. This means that schools can intervene quickly and children no longer need to fall behind. The method also provides useful data for schools and districts on children’s general reading and writing ability.

This method ensures that every child can have access to screening, so that fewer children go undiagnosed. The Lexplore team is able to quickly screen large groups of children, by taking them out of class for only 5 minutes each to read short texts. Upon receiving the results, the school is thenempowered to make decisions about getting a full diagnosis and early support for at risk children.

Schools may be wary of investing in the screening, as with all early intervention, it is impossible to know how big the impact might be. It's critical that all schools understand the importance of early detection of dyslexia.

Lexplore have won many awards, such as the Best Intelligent Cloud Solution by Microsoft, to celebrate the innovativeness and impact of their work.

Impact & scalability

Impact & Scalability

Innovativeness

Lexplore combines science and diagnostic technique in a way that has not been possible before, providing a completely new service for the timely discovery of dyslexia.

Impact

So far, Lexplore has screened around 8,000 children in the US and In Sweden. Lexplore’s screening method has very high accuracy – an impressive 95%. By discovering the children who are at risk of dyslexia, the method eliminates the need for unnecessary, extensive and costly dyslexia assessments of the children who are not at risk, thus saving time and resources.

Scalability

Originating in Sweden, Lexplore has recently launched in the US.

The model is being developed for use with different languages in the future with high scalability in terms of markets and languages.

Implementation steps

Arrange for Lexplore to visit your school
Experienced Lexplore staff conduct the test on the school premises. Each child is asked to read two short texts on a computer screen, while his or her eye movements are recorded by an eye tracker. It takes only five minutes and the child returns to class straight after.
Receiving the results
The results are accessible to authorised people and presented at several different levels – at the individual level, at school level or at the school district or city level. It’s clear which children are at risk and which are not at risk of dyslexia.
Acting on the results
The results will indicate which children are at risk of dyslexia, giving a percentage risk and indicating the ability to read individual letters as well as running text. Schools can use this data to target full diagnostic assessments, saving time and money and ensuring timely diagnosis.

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