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Design & Visual Communication DESIGN & COMUNICAZIONE VISIVA DESIGN & VISUAL COMMUNICATION Video “EasyReading Font Dyslexia Friendly” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epYwcWy6yvI&vl=it Edizione Giugno 2019 PROGETTAZIONE UNIVERSALE 1 DESIGN FOR ALL a comunicazione passa ommunication mainly involves L prevalentemente attraverso la C reading. We read to study, for lettura. Leggiamo per studio, lavoro, work, to get information, for pleasure, informazione, piacere, e su ogni supporto: and on a variety of media: paper, dalla carta, al display, al monitor… fino alle displays, screens… and information is even informazioni proiettate sul casco del pilota di projected onto the helmets worn by jet pilots. jet. Il carattere tipografico è la cinghia di The font is the transmission belt between the trasmissione tra il testo e il lettore e a sua alta text and the reader and if it is easily legible we leggibilità ci consente di investire tutte le can put all our energy into understanding the energie nella comprensione dei contenuti. content. L’APPROCCIO TRAMITE IL DESIGN THE DESIGN FOR ALL FOR ALL APPROACH «La comunicazione visiva comprende anche «Visual communication also includes the la forma del carattere. Occorre che shape of the letter. The image used has to be l’immagine usata sia leggibile a tutti e per legible to everyone and for everyone in the tutti nello stesso modo altrimenti non c’è same way, otherwise there is no visual comunicazione visiva». communication». Bruno Munari* Bruno Munari* EasyReading, un font ad alta leggibilità EasyReading, a highly legible font per tutti for everyone Pensato inizialmente per agevolare la lettura a It was originally conceived to facilitate reading chi è dislessico, nella fase di studio, il progetto for dyslexic persons but during the design stage imbocca la strada più ampia ed inclusiva del it took on a wider and more inclusive horizon Design for All (Progettazione Universale). that included Design for All. Le difficoltà del lettore dislessico diventano così The difficulties of the dyslexic readers therefore un’opportunità per realizzare un font che became a chance to create a font that made agevoli la lettura a tutti. reading easier for everyone. Lucida Sans Font per normo lettori Font for unimpaired readers Calibri Font per normo lettori Font for unimpaired readers EasyReading Font “progettazione universale” (inclusivo normo lettori e dislessici) Font “design for all” (inclusive font for both typical and dyslexic readers) OpenDyslexic Font per lettori dislessici Fonts for dyslexic readers I quattro font sono presentati con la stessa dimensione ottica e con la spaziatura tra le righe di default (automatica). The four fonts are presented with the same optical size and with the default (automatic) line spacing. * Enciclopedia Treccani online, 26 Aprile 2018: “Bruno * Online version of the Treccani Encyclopaedia, 26 April Munari, designer, scultore e scrittore italiano (Milano 2018: “Bruno Munari, Italian designer, sculptor and writer 1907 - 1998). Considerato uno dei massimi protagonisti (Milan 1907 - Milan 1998). Considered one of the dell’arte, del design e della grafica del 20° secolo […]”. greatest protagonists of art, design and graphics of the 20th century […]”. 3 RICERCHE SCIENTIFICHE 2 SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH livello internazionale EasyReading è l’unico nternationally, EasyReading is the only A carattere esplicitamente creato pensando ai I font explicitly “dedicated” to dyslexic lettori dislessici che, sottoposto a ricerche readers which, subjected to autonomous scientifiche autonome e indipendenti sul suo and independent scientific researches on the grado di leggibilità, ha ottenuto risultati degree of legibility, has achieved positive positivi. results. a ricerca “Può un font essere uno strumento he study “Can a font be considered a L compensativo per i lettori con dislessia?”, T compensating tool for readers with condotta dalla dottoressa Christina Bachmann, dyslexia?”, by Christina Bachmann, clinical psicologo clinico e psicoterapeuta del Centro psychologist and psychotherapist at Centro Risorse Clinica Formazione e Intervento in Risorse, Clinica Formazione e Intervento in Psicologia di Prato, su un campione ampio e Psicologia, Prato, Italy, conducted on a large rappresentativo (533 alunni della classe quarta representative sample (533 fourth grade primaria, normolettori e dislessici) nelle children, including normotypical and dyslexic conclusioni attesta che: “I risultati, che readers), concluded that: “The results, which appaiono significativi da un punto di vista sia appear significant from both the statistical statistico che clinico, ci consentono di affermare as well as clinical point of view, allow us to che EasyReading può essere considerato un affirm that EasyReading can be considered valido strumento compensativo per i lettori con a valid compensatory tool for readers with dislessia e un font facilitante per tutte le dyslexia and a facilitating font for all categorie di lettori”. categories of readers”. La ricerca è stata pubblicata sulla rivista The research was published in the scientific scientifica “Dislessia. Giornale italiano di ricerca journal “Dyslexia. Italian Journal of clinical and clinica e applicativa” (n. 2/2013), Edizioni applied research” (no. 2/2013), Published by Centro Studi Erickson, Trento. Centro Studi Erickson, Trento. http://rivistedigitali.erickson.it/dislessia/archivio/vol http://rivistedigitali.erickson.it/dislessia/archivio/vol -10-n-2-2/ -10-n-2-2/ http://www.easyreading.it/it/ricerche-scientifiche/ http://www.easyreading.it/en/scientific-research/ el mese di Settembre 2015 la Dottoressa n September 2015, Psy. Christina Bachmann N Christina Bachmann ha partecipato al 10TH I attended the 10th International Congress of International Congress of the Eamhid. the EAMHID. Integrating Different Approaches Integrating Different Approaches in the in the Neurodevelopmental Perspective Neurodevelopmental Perspective (Florence, (Florence, September 9-11-2015) and she September 9-11-2015) con una relazione dal presented a study named “A special font for titolo: “A special font for special reader: the special reader: the EasyReading font as a EasyReading font as a compensating tool for compensating tool for children with dyslexia children with dyslexia and reading impairment” and reading impairment”. Gli atti del Congresso sono stati pubblicati sul The abstracts of the conference proceedings “JIDR, Journal of Intellectual Disability were published in the “Journal of Mental Research”, (Vol. 59, Part pp 1-139, September Disability Research” (Vol. 59, Part pp 1-139, 2015, MENCAP and International Association of September 2015, MENCAP and International the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Association of the Scientific Study of Intellectual 4 RICERCHE SCIENTIFICHE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH Developmental Disabilities and John Wiley & and Developmental Disabilities and John Wiley & Sons Ltd), edito dalla casa editrice scientifica Sons Ltd), edited by the American scientific statunitense John Wiley & Sons, Inc. publishing house John Wiley & Sons, Inc. el maggio 2018, la Dott.ssa Christina n May 2018, the 14th, Psy. Christina N Bachmann ed il Dott. Lauro Mengheri hanno I Bachmann and Psy. Lauro Mengheri published pubblicato in inglese una nuova analisi dei dati in english a new revised analysis on the matter: succitati, dal titolo: “Dislessia e fonts: è utile “Dyslexia and Fonts: Is a Specific Font Useful?”, un font specifico?” In questo saggio, hanno In this paper they concluded that: “The clinical concluso che: “Il miglioramento clinico improvement resulting from EasyReading is so risultante da EasyReading è così costante da consistent as to overtake the natural reading raggiungere il naturale miglioramento nella improvement in a year, thus proving that lettura di un anno, provando così che EasyReading makes reading easier. This provides EasyReading rende più facile la lettura. Questo the opportunity for dyslexic students to dà agli studenti dislessici l’opportunità di partially fill the gap between their reading riempire in parte il divario tra la scorrevolezza fluency and that of their classmates, just by della loro lettura e quella dei loro compagni di using this font” and that “Finally as the reading classe, semplicemente utilizzando questo font” e fluency and accuracy improvements were che “poichè il miglioramento nella scioltezza e appreciable across all groups (normal readers, nell’accuratezza della lettura è stato notevole in readers with difficulties, dyslexics and students tutti i gruppi (normolettori, lettori con with cognitive difficulties), EasyReading should difficoltà, disclessici e studenti con difficoltà be considered an important aid for all cognitive), EasyReading può essere considerato students”. un importante aiuto per tutti gli studenti”. “Brain Sciences” 2018 8(5), 89, Mpdi, Basel. “Brain Sciences” 2018 8(5), 89, Mpdi, Basel. http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/8/5/89/html http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/8/5/89/html RICONOSCIMENTI 3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS l font EasyReading ha ricevuto he EasyReading font has received I dall’Associazione Italiana Dislessia (AID) T a positive opinion from the Italian Dyslexia parere positivo per le sue specifiche Association (AID) for its specific graphic caratteristiche grafiche che sono utili ad features that facilitate reading by individuals agevolare la lettura a chi presenta problematiche with dyslexia. di Dislessia. It has also been granted incentives by the Ha ottenuto, per il suo design innovativo, la Italian Ministry of Economic Development, concessione di incentivi dal Ministero
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