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* 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 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.

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 * 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 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.