Technology to Help with Learning Disabilities?

GotSanity asks: "I have a little brother who is now 18 and still can not read or do basic math. At an early age he was diagnosed with a level 10 mental handicap. I am curious as to what technology is available to help teach him to read. The major problems with most educational software I have found is that they both cater to younger minds (even though he has a learning disability he still is involved with everyday teenager activities like video games and music) and are often far to expensive for a working class family. I originally got him a copy of Typing of the Dead, and through it he has been learning to read and spell better. What novel education ideas can the Slashdot community suggest?"

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Re:DSM Diagnosis?

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How many people at Slashdot know the DSM? The questioner is appealing to out knowledge of computer software, not our training in developmental psychology. From our point of view, "He can't read or write very well" is a perfectly adequate description.

I actually do have some familiarity with the DSM having had my own mental abberations submitted to its Procrustean taxonomy. I'm tempted to make some critical comments, but life's too short. Suffice to say that the headshrinkers I most respect consider it useful for finding appropriate rituals to appease the Insurance Gods, nothing more.