Educational device for dyslexic children

Claim 1

An educational device for dyslexic children, said device comprising: (a) a base; (b) a shaft mounted on said base; (c) a plurality of blocks mounted on said shaft for rotation relative to said base; (d) a mirror mounted on said base facing said shaft; (e) mirror-image alphabetic indicia carried by at least some of said blocks on at least one face of each of said at least some of said blocks in position to be directly visible to the user of said device, said indicia having a normal orientation when seen by normal children and a mirror-image orientation when seen by dyslexic children and said mirror-image indicia being the mirror-image of the form in which they are seen by non-dyslexic children, whereby said blocks can be rotated to positions in which said mirror-image indicia appear in normal orientation in said mirror, allowing the use of said device to compare the mirror-image indicia carried by said blocks with their mirror-images (that is, their normal appearance) in said mirror by simply turning the blocks so that the mirror-image indicia reflect in the mirror; and (f) totally backwards alphabetic indicia carried by said at least some of said blocks on at least one face of each of said at least some of said blocks, said totally backwards indicia and said mirror-image indicia on each of said at least some of said blocks being related so that, when the totally backwards indicium is directly visible, the corresponding mirror-image indicium is reflected in said mirror in its normal orientation, allowing the user of the device to compare directly the totally backwards indicia carried by said at least some of said blocks with their normal appearance in said mirror, since both are simultaneously visible.