Speechreading challenges on CD-ROM
(Software)

"Education of the Deaf/HH Program, Institute for Interactive Technologies."

"This program was produced with audio for learners who want to use their residual hearing while speechreading. To use the program without audio, simply turn off the computer monitor audio control."--Learner's guide.

This CD is targeted to people that are learning how to speechread. From the main menu you will find instructions that explain the program and how to use it. There is a pre/posttest which includes two sentences from each of the ten chapters. The ten chapters are greetings and commands, the weather, family, the mall, hearing aids, dates and numbers, health and the hospital, the party, fast food, and excuses. In each chapter you can learn words, sentences, and stories and then take challenges where you will have to pick the correct word/sentence/story from a list of four possible selections. There is also a dictionary with videos of each word being spoken from two perspectives.

System requirements for Macintoch: Power Macintosh ; 200 MHz processor ; 32 MB RAM ; MacOS 7.5.3 or higher ; QuickTime 3.0+

System requirements for PC: Windows 95/98 ; 200 MHz processor ; 32 MB RAM ; Audio card with speakers ; QuickTime 3.0+