	US 12,482,373 B2
	Method for learning to read using specialized text
Sarah K. Blodgett, Ledyard, CT (US); and Samuel Henry, Taylors, SC (US)
Filed by Sarah K. Blodgett, Ledyard, CT (US); and Samuel Henry, Taylors, SC (US)
Filed on Dec. 7, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/533,028.
Application 18/533,028 is a continuation in part of application No. 15/640,019, filed on Jun. 30, 2017, granted, now 11,935,422.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/357,648, filed on Jul. 1, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2024/0127709 A1, Apr. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. G09B 17/02 (2006.01); G06F 40/109 (2020.01)

CPC G09B 17/02 (2013.01) [G06F 40/109 (2020.01)]

8 Claims

1. A server system comprising:

a network communication interface; and

processing circuitry configured to:

receive a webpage request from a user electronic device via a browser extension;

access text associated with a webpage corresponding to the webpage request;

process the accessed text to generate specialized text, comprising:

detecting a plurality of orthographic monosyllable words and a plurality of orthographic multisyllable words in the accessed text;

analyzing and dividing at least one orthographic multisyllable word of the plurality of orthographic multisyllable words into two or more sequential syllables;

modifying the accessed text to generate the specialized text, comprising:

adding emphasis to the two or more sequential syllables by alternating plain font with emphasized font while maintaining spacing between letters of the at least one orthographic multisyllable word in accord with a standard typography;

graphically distinguishing orthographic long vowels from orthographic short vowels in the plurality of orthographic monosyllable words and the plurality of orthographic multisyllable words; and

leaving the plurality of orthographic monosyllable words in an original non-emphasized font; and

control the network communication interface to transmit, to the user electronic device, webpage information with the specialized text as a response to the webpage request.