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STUDENTS: Micheál Deely and CJ Burke
CATEGORY: Junior Technology
PROJECT TITLE: A dyslexia light with a difference
APPROACH: After speaking to an optometrist who specialises in colorimetry testing about the benefit he has seen of coloured lighting in helping the children with dyslexia to improve their reading and writing fluency, we decided to build a portable, robust and user friendly lamp with a multi-colour function to assist children reading text of different colours on different backgrounds. To develop our light, we will get advice from a family friend who is a mechanic and he will help assist us in building the lamp if needed. When we are satisfied with our lamp prototype, we will test our lamp with a focus group to see if it is fit for purpose and to see if it is more useful than single coloured lamps on different reading and writing backgrounds. If we see any snags in our design at that point we will modify our lamp design to resolve these issues and make it a better aid to help children with dyslexia to read and write more fluently.
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