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Published online 5 April 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020402-7

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Glasses read dyslexics' eyes

Missile-tracking technology may spot symptoms of learning impairment.

Eye-trackingglasses developed to reduce fighter pilots' workload by enabling their eyes to direct weapons could help to diagnose dyslexia. Qinetiq, part of the British government's former Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, has just received a grant to create child-size prototype glasses.

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