A wearable tactile sensory aid for profoundly deaf children

@article{Saunders2005AWT,
  title={A wearable tactile sensory aid for profoundly deaf children},
  author={Frank A. Saunders and William A. Hill and Barbara Franklin},
  journal={Journal of Medical Systems},
  year={2005},
  volume={5},
  pages={265-270},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:26620843}
}
A field evaluation was conducted in a classroom for profoundly deaf children, to determine the effects upon speech production of experience with a tactile sensory aid. The aid displays sound…
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