Cognition Labs – Technologies for Empowerment

Technologies for Empowerment

Cognition Labs, recognizing the wide neurodiversity of the human population, designs and creates software to enhance, support and supplement reading skills for the millions of people with differences in visual, auditory or other perceptual domains.

Discover CogniLens for iOS

The CogniLens™ app for iOS enables you to open and transform files, books, and notes. You can use the camera to scan and transform text from everyday environments. Designed for phones and tablets, the app positively changes engagement with text and advances capacity to read with ease.

CogniLens provides 15 adjustable variables to transform the appearance of text to suit the reader’s unique visual perceptual needs. The app strengthens educational engagement without hassle, making it a versatile tool for learning and everyday life.

Did you know that 15-20% of the population has a language-based learning disability? Historical research and treatments have focused on dyslexia through its physiological causes with interventions that emphasize multi-sensory language techniques and cognitive training. Until now, there was no comprehensive solution for adapting text to the unique needs of individual learners. Whether you are dyslexic, a second language learner trying to read English, or just feel better when text is bigger or different, this app will help you.

Transform Your Reading with CogniLens

CogniLens provides more than a dozen user-adjustable features that support a personalized version of text to help readers more easily decode words, resulting in improved reading fluidity and retention. With these features, you can:

Convert screen text or scanned text to a version specific to your perceptual requirements
Phonetically translate words to more easily decode meaning
Highlight your typically confused letter combinations
Systematically color code unique vowel sounds and associated letter combinations
Reformat text for vertical and mirror reading
Adjust line spacing, letter learning, font and text size
Convert text to audio
… and more!

CogniLensAR - Coming Soon

The CogniLensAR app translates the comprehensive features of CogniLens into the realm of augmented reality, specifically designed for AR glasses and head-worn devices. This innovative application inherits all the transformative text capabilities of the CogniLens suite but optimizes them for an immersive AR/VR/XR experience.

CogniLensAR works by overlaying transformed text in real-time onto a user’s field of vision through AR glasses or head-worn devices, creating a seamless and personalized reading experience tailored to the viewer’s specific needs. Modify features such as font size, spacing, vowel colors, and syllabication to optimize readability and suit individual preferences.

CogniLensAR offers real time text transformations and individualized perception support, making it a pioneering solution in both educational and professional contexts. For example, CogniLensAR can support users with dyslexia or similar learning differences when “hands-free” is critical, such as when reading a mechanics manual.

Join Our Pilot Program

We delivered our app for iPad to a number of Learning Specialists who work with dyslexic students. A pilot was conducted to test and refine the application for use in supported and independent, at-home, environments. The Specialists and their students were provided with the application and access to a number of grade-leveled books with the student’s commitment to read for 20 minutes daily using the app. The students and Learning Specialists assessed the app’s usability and the students’ engagement.

“…[The app] has allowed him to increase his comprehension and fluency… he’s excited to read… he feels there is no longer a roadblock.”

Lisa Mackey, M.A.Phd.

Learning Specialist

“…that’s the transformational experience that I’m so grateful for because now we have readers that want to read…”

Jennifer Larson

Founder, My City School

“It gave him the tools to put his foundation of remediation to use and really connect with something and feel successful… self-esteem was increased and motivation to try increased.”

Betsy Drobish Joyce, M.S.

Learning Specialist

Our Research

For the millions of people who struggle with perceptual differences, there is often a life-long and generational impact. Communication and connection with one’s community and the world are largely based on the ability to see, read, and comprehend. When this ability is impaired, there often follows a destructive and emotional wake which can be measured in the isolation, financial aid given, school drop-out rates, prison rates, and poor health outcomes. Our research and product development efforts focus on three areas:

1: Dyslexia

Applying algorithm breakthroughs, text transformations and real time processing to insure more effective readability. The CogniLens app is our first product to address the needs of learners with perceptual differences.

2. Vision

Exploring low vision improvements (zoom, image clarity, image to text) and navigation for the blind and/or dyslexic in visual and spatial fields.

3: Comprehension

Implementing Hi-Lo reading, language translations and automated text abstraction/simplification to improve comprehension.

Our Team

Cognition Labs brings together educational specialists, product designers, and technology innovators. Our partners and advisors include educators, content specialists, researchers, strategists, and engineers.

Current partners include content providers such as Learning Ally and educational institutions such as Charles Armstrong School and My City School in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Let’s work together.

We can work together to change the possibilities for those with perceptual differences. Join us in this opportunity.

CogniLens™, Cogni-Lens™ Lite, and DyslexiAR™ are trademarks of Cognition Labs. Cogni-Lens® is a registered trademark of Cognition Labs.