Tag: hyperlexia
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Playpen Sans and Accessibility
Does Playpen Sans capture the accessibility benefits of Comic Sans? If so, this feels like the casual handwriting font we’ve been needing. It combines “the aesthetic form of something made by hand and the digital function of a professional typeface.” The Playpen Sans font family by Veronika Burian, Laura Meseguer, and José Scaglione, excels at…
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R-word and Genius: Situationally Mute Hyperlexic Autistic
When I was a kid, school didn’t know I could read because I wouldn’t read aloud. Situational mutism and exposure anxiety locked my lips. One day, in a quiet corner with a semblance of psychological safety, I quietly, in a whisper, read a book cover to cover to my teacher and said, “Can I go…
