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Times of India
26 April 2010
Briton Designs System That Verbalizes Images
Dad’s Creation Helps Autistic Child ‘Speak’
Afather whose son suffers from severe autism and is unable to speak has developed a computer software package to allow the child to communicate.

Stephen Lodge said the idea for his Speaks4Me system came to him years ago but has been waiting for technology to catch up in order to make it a reality.

His eleven­year­old son, Callum, is nonverbal and uses his father’s invention to speak. Speaks4Me was recently on show at Naidex 2010—the annual disability exhibition in Birmingham, England.

Lodge’s system runs on any device that can uses the Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 operating system. It uses the concept of dragging and dropping images from one area of the screen to another to form sentences, the BBC reported.

The user then presses a speech button to “verbalize” the sentence. “Callum has been using Speaks4Me for some time now and he has already been able to create some very expressive sentences,” Lodge told the BBC.

Examples include, “I want a drink of juice”, “I want to go outside”, and “I feel tired”. Lodge—who lives in South Yorkshire, England—has 20 years’ experience in technology and developed Speaks4Me after deciding that other products on the market were unsatisfactory for Callum. He cashed in his savings and raised money on his property in order to finance the venture.

Speaks4Me is currently sold on a portable, touch screen media player imported from the Far East. But the company is finalizing a “software only” price which will mean that it can run on any Windows laptop, desktop or even an interactive plasma white board in schools.

Lodge says that several people have already tried the system. “It’s fabulous to see how such an exciting but simple concept is well understood by the children that have been introduced to it,” he said.

He is also hoping that it will prove useful to stroke survivors—about a third of whom lose the ability to speak, either temporarily or permanently. “Imagine waking up in hospital, not being able to speak: how would you ask for the toilet?” he told the BBC. AGENCIES Family Ties

Stephen Lodge, a resident of South Yorkshire, has developed a software package to allow his 11­year­old son Callum, who has severe learning disabilities and is unable to talk, to spell out sentences using pictures

The system, which runs on any device using Windows operating systems, uses the concept of dragging and dropping images from one area of the screen to another to form sentences Pressing a speech button then ‘verbalizes’ the sentence

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