Users Manual

Dyseggxia 3.0
English Version

by the Cookie Cloud Team

Luz Rello

Clara Bayarri
dyseggxia@gmail.com

Azuki Grriz
October 2013

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Index
1. Introduction!

2. Download!

3. Getting started with your penguin!

4. Playing!

Types of Exercises!

Instructions!

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Levels!

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5. Customize your penguin!

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7. Share with friends!!

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1. Introduction
Dyseggxia (Piruletras in its Spanish version) is a mobile game that helps
children with dyslexia to overcome their reading and writing problems by
means of fun word games. All exercises in Dyseggxia have been
scientifically designed to target reading and writing errors that are
committed by dyslexic children.
The exercises are targeted with the intention of helping the difficulties
caused by dyslexia. Their effectiveness has been evaluated in a school with
a group of children with dyslexia from first to fifth grade. For the design of
the exercises we have combined current pedagogical strategies with the
results of the analysis of written errors made by children with dyslexia. To
know more about the scientific evaluation, please read the Technical
Overview of Dyseggxia available at the www.dyseggxia.com.
Dyseggxia offers:
More than 5,000 different exercises.
Five difficulty levels: initial, easy, medium, hard and expert. These
have been designed according to word frequency, word length,
morphological complexity of the word, and the number of similar words
in language.
Exercises in two widely spoken languages: Spanish and English.
Each level contains several exercises from 6 types: insertion,
omission, substitution, and transposition of letters as well as word
derivation and separation.
It provides graphics that show the learning evolution of the child.
Accessories to customize a penguin (games pet).

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2. Download
Dyseggxia is compatible with most of the iOS operating systems, it requires
iOS 4.3 or later and it is compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
Dyseggxia has been optimized for iPhone 5. Soon we will have an Android
version.
Search for the word Dyseggxia in the App Store or for the word
Piruletras for its Spanish version. As mentioned before, the app provides
exercises in Spanish and in English.

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3. Getting started with your penguin

Once you downloaded Dyseggxia, you can easily choose the language that
you want to play in the home screen. You will be able to choose exercises
either in English or Spanish language.

Then, click user to create your user and select a name by typing it. You
can create all users you want! Each user has a penguin. The penguin gets
born when you star playing. The more you play the more the penguin grows
and earn prices.

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You can change the user by clicking in users in the home menu.

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4. Playing
Press play in the home menu and then you can choose your level and
start playing.

By solving the first five exercises the penguin will be born and the shop to
customize your penguin will be unlocked.

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Each time you play you will earn points!

With the points you will be able to customize your penguin. You will see
more details about it in the next section.

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Types of Exercises
Dyseggxia has six types of exercises:
Insertion: a letter is missing in a word, and therefore it must be inserted
from the ones within the list shown below.

Omission: there is an extra letter in the word that must be deleted.

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Substitution: there is a wrong letter in the word that must be changed by
one of the letters within the list shown below.

Transposition: the syllables or letters of a word are presented in disorderly,

and the user must arrange them properly.

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Derivation: the user has several possible endings of a word and must
choose the correct option from the ones shown to the right of the screen.

Word separation: several words are put together, and the user must identify
the breaking points between words.

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Instructions
The instructions for each exercise are presented in the form of a video, so
children with dyslexia do not need to read a long text, which may cause
difficulties.

Levels
There are 5 different levels: initial, easy, medium, hard and expert. If the
user desires to play in different levels, he/she must need to unlock the App.
Initially, only the medium level is available.

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5. Customize your penguin

When your penguin is born the shop is unlocked and you can use your points
to customize your penguin.

In the shop with your points you can buy different costumes, eyes, and
colors.

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6. Check your learning evolution

For parents and teachers there is a feature to keep track of the evolution of
the users. They can press progress on the home of the app to know the
percentage of correct words that have been played per day.

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7. Share with friends!

To engage the user, the achievements can be shared via iOS Game Center.