What is Tailo?
Tailo is a web-based platform that transforms the way that neurodivergent students read and comprehend key knowledge, providing tailored support and tools to help them succeed. By using intelligent extraction technology, Tailo creates a neuroinclusive experience that supports the strengths of different minds, eliminating the cognitive stress of ridgid PDFs and long word documents.
What is Disabled Students’ Allowance?
Disabled Students’ Allowance is a grant that helps with the costs of studying with a disability, providing access to things like one to one support, travel allowance, equipment and technology like Tailo. Over 60% of neurodivergent students experience challenges with reading at university, which is why DSA have now officially welcomed Tailo as a technology to help students with reading and comprehension challenges.
“Reading can be an issue for students, where text is presented in multiple formats, be that different layouts, fonts, colour schemes, file formats, etc. Research materials found online can be presented inconsistently. This is inaccessible for many students, and while some software solutions currently available have the ability to read out the text, they do not provide functionality to change the formatting of the original text.”
Dylan G., DSA Professional
How does Tailo help neurodivergent students?
From cutting-edge extraction technology to intuitive design, Tailo creates a customized reading environment like no other. Here are some of the key benefits of this technology that support and celebrate the diversity of neurodivergent minds:
- Transforms difficult-to-read content from PDFs and Word Documents into more easy-to-read and accessible formats
- Creates a customised reading environment to support neurodivergent students’ unique reading and learning needs, helping comprehension with text-to-speech, and splitting content into digestible sections
- Offers summarised overviews of content and helps to identify key points in a text
- Adapts to your visual reading environment with a series of personalized options, from colour overlays to alternative fonts, custom text alignment, and line spacing
- Supporting you to easily understand content with dictionary definitions, reading guides and more
- Boosts productivity and empowers students to harness the strengths of their neurodivergent minds
From dyslexia and anxiety disorders to ADHD and autism, find out more about how Tailo can help you.