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Claire's spelling rules make
shortlist
19.08.11
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A BUNCRANA media
student has been shortlisted for the Best-in-Show
2011 competition organised by The Digital Hub. |
Claire McNelis has
developed and designed the website,
www.SpellingRules.ie ,
to explore the use of digital interactive media and
computer games in literacy teaching, with regard
specifically to children with dyslexia.
Claire, who is in her final year at the Huston
School of Film and Digital Media at NUI Galway,
said: “While computers can be used to teach material
as effectively as teachers, there is not currently
an effective, age-appropriate, affordable
computer-based application which helps students with
dyslexia to learn spelling rules. Thus, it was
undertaken to design such an |
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Claire McNelis. |
application with the
intention of hosting it online and making it freely
available.
"The product teaches
spelling rules in a way that is accessible
specifically to people with dyslexia. It combines
audio with written words because many of the
problems that dyslexic people have with reading and
spelling stem from a phonological processing
deficit.”
Huston school director Dr Rod Stoneman commended
Claire on her project. "Her computer application
explains spelling rules, presents them in a way
specifically designed for dyslexic users, and allows
them to practise the rules in a simple computer game
may help dyslexic students to learn and retain
existing grammatical rules.” The overall winner will
be announced on September 14. |
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