Assistive technology for the speech-disabled</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Assistive technology for the speech-disabled"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Assistive,technology,for,the,speech-disabled"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">10-01-2008</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Assistive technology for the speech-disabled</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Bangkok, Thailand (ZDNet Asia): Assistive technology for persons with disabilities includes augmentative and alternative communication devices, on-screen keyboards, speech augmentative communication programs, word prediction, sign-language programs, touch keyboards, text telephones for the deaf, talking word processors, picture dictionaries and speech assessment software. Prakasit said the difficulty lay in designing the input to these programs so as to make them generally suitable for use because the requirements of one disabled person may be totally different from another's. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/business/0,39044229,62036391,00.htm" target="blank">www.zdnetasia.com/news/business/0,39044229,62036391,00.htm</a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show