Reading and Writing
These tools can help improve your writing and reading. They check your grammar and may make suggestions as to how you can make your sentence structure clearer.
A free tool that implements proven techniques to improve reading for people by assisting with their reading comprehension. Find out more
The editor helps you to make your English writing clear and understandable by your tutor. It highlights where your writing is too dense and splits sentences into two or suggests taking out unnecessary words. It uses clear colour coding to differentiate between grammar errors and spelling. However, Hemmingway is not free, so you might wish to use Grammarly below instead. There is a help page for advice. Find out more
The basic account is free and helps you to produce clearly understandable English writing. The free version corrects grammar, punctuation and spelling only. You can download the software on to your computer or use the browser version. The browser version works by uploading a document on to your browser, editing it with Grammarly and then downloading the edited document. Find out more.
This is a free downloadable font that helps to address contrast/blindness, letter confusion or rotation and crowding. Find out more
Colourveil (tint for Windows only)
Colour filters on your screen to reduce eye strain and help with dyslexia and visual stress. Find out more.