The Origin of the Word Machine

Some stories don’t start in childhood. They start in hindsight.

Volume 4 of Doctor Dyslexia Dude goes back to 1996 not to rewrite the past, but to understand it. Set at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh. 

Volume 4 copyright 2025

The Time-Traveling Word Machine follows a student confronting something many kids still face today: the feeling that reading difficulty is a personal failure, not a solvable problem.

In this story, a “Word Machine” is not magic. It is a way of slowing language down, breaking it apart, and sound by sound until what once felt impossible becomes manageable.

This volume is not about quick wins or perfect readers. It is about persistence. About decoding—and realizing that struggling with words was never a matter of intelligence, but a matter of access

Volume 4 continues the Doctor Dyslexia Dude universe with a deeper focus on origin, memory, and meaning showing readers that the tools they need to move forward often begin with understanding where they have been.

Doctor Dyslexia Dude: The Time-Traveling Word Machine (Volume 4) is now available.

Peace, 

Shawn and Inshirah Robinson 

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