Abstract: An auditory and tactile stimulation and feedback system for promoting development of individuals. The system stimulates attention and movement, helps individuals to learn cause and effect relationships, to control a surrounding environment and to promote normal development by facilitating the individual's exploration of a developmental sequence of sounds or other stimuli. The system includes an input device which can be interconnected electrically and physically with other input devices, all of which are responsive to the individual as the individual traverses the input devices.

Abstract: An interactive speech pronunciation system for teaching pronunciation and reducing the accent of a user includes a memory for storing a plurality of presequenced lessons, an input interface for allowing a user to select predetermined ones of the presequenced lessons, a processor for executing program steps corresponding to the lessons selected by the user, and a monitor for displaying visual indicators to the user of the system. The speech pronunciation system further includes an audio input device, for recording sounds spoken by the user, an audio output device for transducing signals fed thereto to pre-recorded sounds and a speech processor for providing stored signals to the audio output device.

Abstract: A system for helping infants or physically impaired individuals to communicate with others, such as parents or caregivers, to learn cause and effect relationships, to control a surrounding environment, and to promote normal development by facilitating the individual's exploration of a developmental sequence of sounds and a repertoire of simple spoken words. The system includes an input device with a plurality of actuator elements that are selectively responsive to gross physical movement of the individual, an audiovisual output device for providing feedback to the individual and emitting communicated messages to others, and an adaptive control unit for transforming information provided by the input device into instructions for use by the audiovisual output device.