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CONTESTANTS cracked their fingers and wiped their palms as they got set to move their fingers at the Deaf Spelling Bee Competition Wednesday.
And, on the 39th round of competing, Chrystal Dial, of Touch of Christ RC Deaf Community emerged the winner after her opponent Christopher Mohammed faltered in spelling United National Congress.
The Deaf Spelling Bee competition which started four years ago was organised to coincide with International Day of Persons with Disabilities. It was held in collaboration with the Ministry of Social Development, Disabilities Affairs Unit and hosted at San Fernando City Hall Auditorium.
Contestants were warned against moving their fingers too quickly as the judges Bryan Rodrigues and Dana Smith-both of whom are deaf-and June Bruton had to ensure each letter was correctly placed after the word signers gave the word.
Participants were also advised to request a repeat of the signed word if unsure as, in sign language, some signs may look the same. Speech reading was also disallowed.
The competition started with three to five letter words and moved to the harder nine letter words including tranquilliser, identification, circumcise and local places as Champs Fleurs and Chase Village.
Some words which seem simple for the hearing population, are more difficult for the hearing impaired. "Little nuances in sound would be picked up by those who could hear and they would get the spelling right," John Henry, of Deaf Alert Learning Centre told the Express, however, he added, for the hearing impaired this could not be done.
Twenty-one-year-old Dial said she practised up to four hours from the word list given prior to the competition and expressed surprise over winning the contest.
She said she has a love for words and uses her dictionary almost every day whenever she comes upon a word with which she was not familiar while she read the newspaper or looked at television.
The 21-year-old aspiring computer technician of Arima, who won a laptop computer in the competition, said she promised her father she would teach him to use the computer and would use her winning prize to do this.
Mohammed also of Touch of Christ was awarded a video camera while third and fourth placed Paulette Rodriguez and Tenielle Smith both of Deaf Pioneers Life Centre won a digital camera and $1,000 respectively.
Participants over the age of 13 represented Pointe-a-Pierre Government Special School, South East Port of Spain Secondary, Deaf Alert Learning Centre of Princes Town and Agape Deaf Centre.
CONTESTANTS cracked their fingers and wiped their palms as they got set to move their fingers at the Deaf Spelling Bee Competition Wednesday.
And, on the 39th round of competing, Chrystal Dial, of Touch of Christ RC Deaf Community emerged the winner after her opponent Christopher Mohammed faltered in spelling United National Congress.
The Deaf Spelling Bee competition which started four years ago was organised to coincide with International Day of Persons with Disabilities. It was held in collaboration with the Ministry of Social Development, Disabilities Affairs Unit and hosted at San Fernando City Hall Auditorium.
Contestants were warned against moving their fingers too quickly as the judges Bryan Rodrigues and Dana Smith-both of whom are deaf-and June Bruton had to ensure each letter was correctly placed after the word signers gave the word.
Participants were also advised to request a repeat of the signed word if unsure as, in sign language, some signs may look the same. Speech reading was also disallowed.
The competition started with three to five letter words and moved to the harder nine letter words including tranquilliser, identification, circumcise and local places as Champs Fleurs and Chase Village.
Some words which seem simple for the hearing population, are more difficult for the hearing impaired. "Little nuances in sound would be picked up by those who could hear and they would get the spelling right," John Henry, of Deaf Alert Learning Centre told the Express, however, he added, for the hearing impaired this could not be done.
Twenty-one-year-old Dial said she practised up to four hours from the word list given prior to the competition and expressed surprise over winning the contest.
She said she has a love for words and uses her dictionary almost every day whenever she comes upon a word with which she was not familiar while she read the newspaper or looked at television.
The 21-year-old aspiring computer technician of Arima, who won a laptop computer in the competition, said she promised her father she would teach him to use the computer and would use her winning prize to do this.
Mohammed also of Touch of Christ was awarded a video camera while third and fourth placed Paulette Rodriguez and Tenielle Smith both of Deaf Pioneers Life Centre won a digital camera and $1,000 respectively.
Participants over the age of 13 represented Pointe-a-Pierre Government Special School, South East Port of Spain Secondary, Deaf Alert Learning Centre of Princes Town and Agape Deaf Centre.