87%
of young children exceed recommended daily screen time limits
Read the Science behind Lestori. The same design principles that make Lestori transformative for the neurodiverse and the visually impaired make it powerful for all children.
By age 5, children who have 5 books a day read to them are 1.4 million words ahead of their peers. Logan et al. 2019 ↗ But when 20% of children are dyslexic and can’t be diagnosed until age 8, or when parents are too busy to keep up, they fall further behind. Lestori bridges this gap, removing the shame barrier for both parents and children.
My son used to hate reading! After using Lestori, he told me he loved reading! It’s incredible that Lestori changed his mind about reading books. That’s how you know you’ve succeeded!
Hong Chao
Lancelot’s mum
During the first five years of life, the brain forms over one million new neural connections per second. The experiences your child has during this window, especially with reading, physically shape the architecture of their brain for life.
87%
of young children exceed recommended daily screen time limits
1.4M
word gap between children who are read to daily vs. those who are not
20%
of the population has dyslexia — often undiagnosed until age 8
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital showed children the same story told in three different formats, and discovered that animated videos did the most harm to a child’s brain.
Comprehension: Lowest
Visual perception lit up but brain connectivity collapsed. Language, imagery, and reflection networks disengaged.
Comprehension: Moderate
Language network strained. Imagery and reflection networks weakly engaged. Brain working hard without enough support.
Comprehension: Highest
Strongest integration across ALL five brain networks — language, attention, visual imagery, perception, and self-reflection.
Lestori is designed to exclusively use this format
Lestori leverages familiar voices to make mental imagery more vivid and more likely to be stored in long-term memory.
Your voice acts as a “scaffold,” thickening the arcuate fasciculus — the white matter highway connecting the brain’s hearing and speaking centres. This leads to faster verbal processing and superior language acquisition.
Tiny details like Lestori’s multi-narrator functionality shows (not tells) children the various ways the same story can be interpreted by different people, which stimulates a child’s thought processes and invites them to consider things in their own unique way.
Have multiple people read to your child. Mum, dad, grandma, and grandpa! Watch in awe as your child realises there are many different ways to enjoy the same book.
Audio stops and starts as your child turns pages. Their brain gets the time it needs to form images, consolidate meaning, and encode into memory.
Curriculum-based questions stimulate the prefrontal cortex — building prediction, working memory, and planning skills that most parents wouldn’t naturally prompt.
A 2023 study of over 10,000 adolescents (Cambridge University / NIH ABCD Study) found that children who read for pleasure from an early age had larger brain volumes in regions supporting language, memory, empathy, and decision-making, and showed fewer signs of depression, aggression, and behavioural problems.
Learn to recognize and name feelings
Vocabulary & language
Quietly self-reflect and discuss solutions
Empathy & Self Reflection
Use words to articulate problems
Feelings & Regulation
Fix problems
Prediction
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