Imagine Stories: an AI app for dyslexia and ADHD therapy

A platform where a story is created, tailored to the patient and used for reading practice.

• Story generation - text and illustrations created in real time and adapted to each new part of the story.
• Characters and scenes - predefined elements to choose from, with the option to add your own.
• Editing and personalisation - changing fonts, colours and backgrounds, e.g. for people with colour blindness or visual impairments.
• Player - reading pace set by the therapist to match the child's abilities.
• Dyslexia support - switching between Lexend and OpenDyslexic fonts, and text backgrounds with research-based contrast.
• Development - a Next.js/React app integrated with OpenAI, Anthropic Claude and Stable Diffusion.

The project addresses a shortage of speech therapy materials. Speech therapists, therapists and parents need stories tailored to each child's individual needs, and there are too few ready-made texts.

Text alone isn't enough. For children with dyslexia, presentation matters too: typeface, background colour and contrast, and in reading therapy, pace as well. The product had to combine generative AI with tools that let users control all of this.

The tool had to be functional and, at the same time, fit the specific requirements of therapists and parents.

Users build a story from predefined characters and scenes or add their own elements, and AI generates the text and illustrations on the fly.

Stories and images adapt to each new part of the narrative, so the storyline stays flexible and every story can unfold differently. The finished text can be edited: font, colours and background can be changed, e.g. for colour blindness or visual impairments. The player matches reading pace to the patient's abilities, and the therapist sets it for a specific child.

Support for people with dyslexia

The accessibility features meet WCAG 2.1 criteria 1.4.8 (Visual Presentation) and 1.4.3 (Contrast). Users switch between the Lexend and OpenDyslexic fonts, which make letters easier to recognise, and choose the text background colour. The colour choices are based on the study by Rello and Baeza-Yates, "Good Background Colors for Readers: A Study of People with and without Dyslexia".

Speech therapists, therapists and parents got a tool in which therapy material is created on the fly and can be tailored to the child straight away.

One platform combines content and illustration generation, text presentation settings and a player with adjustable pace. A therapist can prepare a new story and immediately set it up for a patient's needs, instead of searching for ready-made materials.