Case Study: Portland College improves dyslexic planning and organization with Ayoa Mind Mapping

How Mind Mapping has helped with my dyslexia

Portland College’s dyslexia tutor, David Matkin, needed a better way to plan, organize, and turn ideas into structured work while managing the challenges of dyslexia. The case study highlights how Ayoa, through its Mind Mapping product, helped him and his students overcome the “blank page” barrier and process information more visually.

Ayoa’s Mind Mapping solution let David map tasks, link directly to documents, move branches easily, and export maps into Word, PDF, or text formats for formal writing. The result was faster planning, better organization, improved confidence, and a practical way for dyslexic users to separate idea generation from the writing process, making it easier to produce essays, policies, and other detailed documents.

Portland College

David Matkin

Portland College