# 178. Supporting Students with Visual Dyslexia with Hillary Summerbell

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Podcast: [Educator Forever](https://stenobird.com/podcast/educator-forever-5757634)
Published: 2026-03-25T11:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.educatorforever.com/
Audio file: https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/f8532634-ddc6-4b34-9fc7-ec4530702b1a.mp3
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## Resource

Hillary Summerbell is the founder and CEO of Summerbell, a literacy technology company redefining how visual dyslexics engage with text. A fourth-generation Washingtonian and lifelong creative, Hillary brings a designer’s eye and an inventor’s persistence to the world of EdTech. After a career in interior design and entrepreneurship, Hillary built on the academic research of positional arc reading and elevated it through technology, creating Summerbell. Her work has delivered measurable gains in reading fluency and comprehension, transforming an academic idea into a tool used by students, parents, and educators nationwide. Hillary and I talk about her visual dyslexia and how it influenced the creation of Summerbell, which reformats text into an arc for easier comprehension. She gets into the challenges of developing Ed Tech and how teachers can best use Summerbell with AI. For all links and resources mentioned in this episode, head to the show notes: https://www.educatorforever.com/episode178 .

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