Patent ID: 7779354

Claim:
A method for recognizing and correcting dyslexia-related spelling errors, the method comprising the computer implemented steps of: receiving a word for evaluation of a dyslexia-related misspelling to form a received word; comparing the received word with a plurality of dyslexia variants; identifying a match between the received word and a dyslexia variant in plurality of dyslexia variants; comparing an error rate at which dyslexia-related misspelled words are received with a threshold; and evaluating the received word as one of a correctly spelled word and a dyslexia-related misspelling of a word, wherein the step of evaluating includes evaluating the received word as the dyslexia-related misspelling of a word, the method further including: retrieving a profile of a user, wherein the profile of the user includes a count of dyslexia-related misspellings by the user associated with a dyslexia type; providing a correctly spelled word associated with the dyslexia variant on a display terminal; and responsive to an indication that the received word is not the dyslexia-related misspelling of a word, decrementing the count in the profile of the user associated with the dyslexia type of the dyslexia-related misspelling.