Once purchased, in future years, Lexia provides a no cost solution for reading difficulties. Lexia software is user friendly and requires no other computer skills than basic keyboard skills and an ability to use a mouse. These programs have been used successfully by students working on their own. They do not require specialised teacher supervision. Lexia learning systems provide a guaranteed solution for reading difficulties.
Most commercial programs offer five or six activities, each including four to eight exercises.
Some have up to four. By varying the activity with each word list, Lexia ensures that every student both understands the material, and becomes automatic in using it. These variations involving audio word discrimination, visual discrimination and keyboarding are equivalent to entire exercises in commercial programs, effectively doubling the number of Lexia Exercises in the comparison above. Advancing students quickly move on after showing mastery of each skill. Students having trouble with any given skill are first given hints, then help, then branched out into practice exercises, and finally given easier activities to help them develop the skill.