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→For people with cognitive impairments
* Provide assistance with text composition via context-sensitive synonyms and antonyms (ideally everywhere that text can be composed)
* Provide assistance with text composition via context-sensitive synonyms and antonyms (ideally everywhere that text can be composed)
* Provide reading assistance by optionally reading text aloud via text-to-speech, and further optionally highlighting the words as the are read, synchronized with speech (see [http://www.texthelp.com/page.asp TextHelp's Read & Write product family] for an example of this from the Windows world, and see [http://www.planetread.org/ Planetread] for a similar application for general literacy in India).
* Provide reading assistance by optionally reading text aloud via text-to-speech, and further optionally highlighting the words as the are read, synchronized with speech (see [http://www.texthelp.com/page.asp TextHelp's Read & Write product family] for an example of this from the Windows world, and see [http://www.planetread.org/ Planetread] for a similar application for general literacy in India).
* Provide the capability for teachers and therapists to [[create videos for parents]] of interventions parents can do at home.
Statistics on cognitive impairments are very difficult to come by, as they include such a broad range of needs (e.g. we don't have statistics on things like dyslexia, which would be aided by optional text-to-speech). We do know that roughly 0.1% of the U.S. population either has "has mental retardation, developmental disability, Alzheimer's, or serious problem with confusion/forgetfulness". By our logic above, that works out to 1,000,000 target OLPC users. However, as noted, the number of people who would be aided by these features is far larger.
Statistics on cognitive impairments are very difficult to come by, as they include such a broad range of needs (e.g. we don't have statistics on things like dyslexia, which would be aided by optional text-to-speech). We do know that roughly 0.1% of the U.S. population either has "has mental retardation, developmental disability, Alzheimer's, or serious problem with confusion/forgetfulness". By our logic above, that works out to 1,000,000 target OLPC users. However, as noted, the number of people who would be aided by these features is far larger.