It’s been a long time coming, but we’ve completed one of our most exciting projects. We worked with Babs Day on a school website last year. After working with us, she started to talk about this amazing project she had in mind. Shortly after, she asked us to work on the brief.
Now we have completed the project, we’d like to tell you a little bit about it.
Visual Phonics by Hand is a system of handcues for teaching and using phonics with deaf children. Using the two-handed fingerspelling alphabet as a starting point, it capitalises on the ability many young deaf children have. It offers a quick tool to show the phonemes in English speech and spelling. It overlays any published phonics schemes to give greater access for deaf children.
It was developed by Headteacher, Babs Day, who, as a Teacher of the Deaf, created it as a literacy teaching tool for mainstream or special school classrooms. VPbH has good application to Speech and Language therapy situations and home use too.
We loved creating this project. It was a real buzz. Sue got down and dirty with some motion graphics, Matt worked brand-side whilst Nathan coded the website and handled video production. All the other stuff was a team effort aided by coffee!
We also worked very closely with a subtitling whiz. We’ve never seen anyone type so fast! The result was brilliant. We even have the subtitles on the YouTube video! Filming in HD meant that the video is super crisp and we’ve managed to keep the file size down so that any computer can handle it.
Take a look at the website - http://www.visualphonicsbyhand.com
Find out more about the project by clicking here.
