This Inventor Just Licensed a Device That Helps Dyslexics

Congratulations Rob!! Rob is a teacher and an athletic coach who licensed his second product idea using the inventRight 10-step process to license an idea. He discusses his journey as an inventor and the challenges and excitement of realizing your dreams.

Rob explains how he came up with the Word Tracker:

I came up with the idea of The Word Tracker at the completion of my son's dyslexia program ceremony. A teacher in the program was being honored for her work she had done with certain dyslexic students. In honoring her she was allowed to demonstrate techniques she used when tutoring students. When sharing her reading strategies, she used a reading aide called an EZ reader reading strip which is basically an 6 inch ruler without any numbers. The reading strip allowed her to track sentences, but it was clumsy, awkward and it only served one purpose which was to track words and sentences linearly. I felt it did little in supporting the Orton-Gillingham curriculum. So I created a product with the solution in mind. How do you learn to read? Using my experience as a teacher and a parent of a dyslexic child, I knew part of the problem was in decoding words. So I developed a product that allows you to decode words with speed and fluency, The Word Tracker! What I didn't realize is The Word Tracker is a literacy product that's cross-categorical. It can be used in any reading curriculum to decode numbers, can decode different languages, can be used as a fidget tool, and for older students as well (High School and Adult Ed).

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