Jason Braun, 35, a graduate student at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, created a website to assist fellow dyslexic students check for homophones in documents. His efforts are featured in a recent article published in the Belleville News-Democrat (BND.)
Homophones are words that sound alike but have different meanings. People living with dyslexia often use the wrong word thinking it is being correctly used. The use of spell-check on a computer does not catch the error since the word is not incorrectly spelled.
Braun’s web application can be found at www.homophonecheck.com. It allows writers to check for errors that ordinary word processing software cannot catch. More information is available in the BND article, which was published Thursday, April 11.