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Literacy and Numeracy Edutainment Packages for Disaffected Young Learners

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2002)

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The UK Government has conducted research into skills gaps within the UK population. It has concluded that there is an alarmingly large proportion of the population with low literacy and numeracy skills.

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  1. Interactive Systems Research Group, The Department of Computing and Mathematics, The Nottingham Trent University, Burton Street, Nottingham, NG1 4BU, UK

    D. J. Brown, M. Yazdanparast, J. Lewis, N. Shopland & H. M. Powell

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  1. SZS — Study Centre for Blind and Partially Sighted Students, Technical University of Karlsruhe, Engesserstr. 4, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. i3s3 — integrated studying, University of Linz, Altenbergerstr. 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Joachim Klaus

  3. i3s3 — integrated studying, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/366-1B, 1040, Wien, Austria

    Wolfgang Zagler

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Brown, D.J., Yazdanparast, M., Lewis, J., Shopland, N., Powell, H.M. (2002). Literacy and Numeracy Edutainment Packages for Disaffected Young Learners. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2398. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45491-8_29

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