Mobile Applications, An Emerging Powerful Tool for Dyslexia Screening and Intervention: A Systematic Literature Review

Nowadays, mobile smart applications seem to play a vital role in dyslexia screening and intervention, accumulating numerous assets and comforts in according to dyslexics students’ needs and their learning pace. Initial detection of students’ disabilities, followed by a corresponding intervention program are the best combination of actions in an attempt to any problem be confronted effectively. In our today's society, mobile smart apps have been considered as an alternative approach for the success of these key steps, as well. During the last decades they have been developed or have been implemented, focused on different aspects of dyslexia symptoms (reading, writing, mathematical difficulties, memory etc.) The aim of this systematic literature review was to report a great number of mobile smart applications for dyslexia screening and intervention. The final 26 studies were selected, which have been conducted from 2012 to 2019. These papers were categorized into two sections. The criterion was the purpose of their use at a time. As a result, the first classification reflected a mobile app as a detection tool, while the second one presented the mobile app as intervention tool. Research revealed that a greater number of mobile applications were designed to intervene in dyslexic symptoms, compared to applications for detecting this disorder. A significant percentage of mobile smart apps for dyslexia screening assessed a range of symptoms. However, mobile smart apps for dyslexia intervention assisted students with dyslexia to develop mainly reading and secondarily other skills. © 2020. All Rights Reserved