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I work in a team with some people who are dyslexic. I've noticed they don't communicate over written communication as much as some others, even preferring to cr

• nvarsj 6y ago
  This is a very good point. There seem to be a non-trivial number of dyslexic engineers out there (I've worked with at least 3-4 over my career), and they struggle a lot to write - although they'll hide it out of cultural taboo. They tend to have excellent verbal communication skills though and seem to handle coding perfectly fine - one of them being one of the best engineers/mathematicians I've worked with. I wonder how we can better accommodate it, especially in a remote environment.
  • SamuelAdams 6y ago
    > I wonder how we can better accommodate it, especially in a remote environment. Perhaps improving speech-to-text programs will help a lot? Maybe they can record what they want to document in a lecture-style way. Give them a white board or paper, set them up with a good microphone, and get a program that records their voice to a video / mp3 file. Then process their lecture through a speech-to-text program and have another team member format it to match the wiki. That way all the other team members are doing is light editing of an existing document. Now that doesn't fix the issue of the dyslexic team member having trouble reading. Maybe they can use screen readers like JAWS to quickly have knowledge bases read to them? That way it is no different than an in-person phone call?