Early screening for dyslexia with eye-tracking, cloud-based tool from Optolexia - Microsoft Enterprise

One of the things I love about my job is seeing how today's technologies can enable new ways of doing things that make a real impact on people's lives. Case in point: The dyslexia-screening tool developed by Optolexia, which was named a "Future Swedish Innovator" by SvD, one of the largest newspapers in Sweden. Taking advantage of the cloud computing and machine learning Optolexia aims to help schools identify students at risk for dyslexia significantly earlier than current screening tests. Its solution is a great example of a project that falls into the upper left quadrant of the four-block diagram tool I covered in a previous blog, which is to say that it's a project that benefits tremendously from being in the cloud with relatively low risk and it was able to be implemented quickly. As many as 10–15 percent of school-age children are dyslexic, and the International Dyslexia Association estimates there are 1 billion people with dyslexia worldwide.