Dyslexia is one of the most common learning disorders, with every one in ten people experiencing it. While it can be easily worked through, it often gets treated as simple laziness or as a sign of a low IQ. Jaslok Hospital, located in India, is looking to change perceptions of this disorder by creating a special captcha that mimics what dyslexics see so the rest of us can be a tad more empathetic.
A captcha will mimic Dyslexia to illustrate the disorder.
As most might know, captchas are the security measure implemented by sites to weed out bots—basically, it’s when a word appears slightly distorted and the site asks you to type it in before submitting a form. These special ‘dyslexic’ captchas were placed on the website frequented by parents and teachers and were built using real letter samples from dyslexic students.
Key takeaways
- Jaslok Hospital and Dentsu Webchutney Innovation Lab have worked together to create a campaign designed to show people what it is like to be dyslexic.
- The team built special captchas, the common internet security measure, from real writing samples submitted by people with dyslexia, and posted them on websites frequently visited by parents and teachers.
- More than a million people who entered the special captcha incorrectly were taken to a message encouraging them to learn more about dyslexia.
See MTSS for schools
Is your child struggling in school?
Get your free personalized learning roadmap
You describe what you see at home. We turn it into a plan you start this week.
- Answer 5 short questionnaires about what you already notice, 30–45 minutes at your own kitchen table
- Your child sits no test and gets no score: nothing to schedule, nothing for them to dread
- You do the answering, the AI does the writing, and a person reviews it before it reaches you
- Access all 40+ courses instantly: reading, math, focus, processing and more, with new ones added regularly
Why we use AI, plainly: it writes from a knowledge base our team maintains and audits. We work through it line by line and pull anything the evidence stops supporting. The roadmap you get on Tuesday reflects what we corrected on Monday, and a human still reads it before you do.
Your school district must evaluate your child free of charge if you ask in writing, whatever your income and whatever the outcome (US, 34 CFR 300.111 and 300.301(b)). That route takes time and answers a different question than you do. This one starts today, from what you already know.
Your answers stay yours. We do not sell your personal information, and we do not hand identifiable assessment data to outside AI companies to train their models.
A screener is a starting point, not a diagnosis. If your child might need formal accommodations (an IEP or 504 plan), or you suspect a vision, hearing or medical cause, pursue a professional evaluation too. That is the only route to those supports.
