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A digital tool with a goal to be accessible and inclusive
Reading Rays is a research-based digital educational tool for students, therapists, and parents to aid in literacy and speech education by providing them with accessible resources and an aim of being inclusive and accessible.
Team: Sunnyside
Team members
Nicholas Tran, Michelle Ta, Teena Mali, Gabriel FordanMembers roles and background
- Michelle Ta
- CEO
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Information Science & Technology Student
Thinkful Graduate
Tilted Chair Jr. UX/UI Designer
- Nicholas Tran
- CTO
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AI Scientist
Computer Science Educator
AWS Solutions Architect
Principal Software Engineer
@Venture Industries
- Teena Mali
- Head of Product
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Head of Product
UX Designer/Researcher
Co-Head of Content @Project Kindling
Collaborator @Collab Collective
Speech-Language Researcher
- Gabriel Fordan
- Head of Design
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Front-End Engineer
Co-founder @Vendrato
Marketing manager @S-VELO
Contact details
Solution description
Reading Rays is a research-based digital educational tool for students, therapists, and parents to aid in literacy and speech education by providing them with accessible resources and an aim of being inclusive and accessible.
Solution context
According to studies, roughly 15% of all students suffer from some type of attention or speech impairment. This number soars when autism and other neurodivergences are factored in. The current educational curriculum and resources do not take these diverse learning demands into account. Digital learning has a good impact on student accomplishment and has become an intrinsic part of everyday classrooms, according to a broad survey of 16,906 teachers and administrators, but it still has a long way to go. It gives you more freedom and variety, but it doesn't give you much in the way of interaction and collaboration.
Solution target group
Students, Kids, Parents, Speech-Language Pathologists, Therapists.
Solution impact
We are aiming to develop a research-based digital educational tool for students, therapists, teachers, and parents to aid in literacy and speech education, with the goal of being inclusive and accessible.
Solution tweet text
Looking for a more interactive classroom for your students? Reading Rays aims to aid neurodivergent students in literarcy and speech educationSolution innovativeness
Current digital education tools are not accessible to everyday homes because they are primarily designed from the educator's perspective, and the majority of the apps are only compatible with iPhones and iPads and are quite expensive. Educators support these platforms, but these platforms often lack tech advisors resulting in poor visual feedback.
Solution transferability
Reading Rays can be used as a general remote learning tool to enhance any academic environment and provide an interactive and collaborative learning experience.
Solution sustainability
Reading Rays intends to harness the power of AI document analysis, as AI can transform any document or worksheet into an interactive experience. Instead of relying on an external API with a restricted number of terms for pronunciations and definitions, we are leveraging data science and analytic approaches to create a rich and vast database of words, definitions, and pronunciations with our solution. Reading Rays intends to increase language support for all languages, introduce multilingual features, and give more language education possibilities in the future.
Solution team work
Our team cooperated effortlessly together and we made sure to offer assistance where it was needed, divide the tasks, and project coordinate together to ensure that everything was achieved.
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