A new research has been suggesting that dyslexic readers could increase their reading speed or comprehension if electronic devices carry short text lines.

A total of 100 students were included in the study, which was carried out by researchers at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The partakers involved those reading on paper as well as e-readers.

The ones, who earlier used to struggle the most during sight-word reading, read faster on the device. Also, the ones having limited visual attention spans showed better comprehension.

The researchers said that it was due to the few words per line that helped the participants read faster. The method could also work on paper, the team believed. In fact, any other device, including the blackboard, could help such people read faster by having few words in one line.

Dyslexia, as per the findings, could be of many types. Still, a few people could be assisted in reading by making adjustments to text, which was visual in nature.

"If people are struggling to read they may want to try to simply blow the text up in their small computer-like device to see if having fewer words helps", stated chief researcher, Dr. Matthew Schneps, at the Science Education Center.