The TalkBox Project

Project Name: The TalkBox Project

The TalkBox Project has the following goals: to provide a low-cost open-source, open-hardware Speech Generating Device (aka “SGD”) to the community, so that those who need such devices can more easily obtain them; to empower more individuals who have disabilities be makers themselves; to create an ecosystem of making that provides employment opportunities for high school students who have developmental disabilities.

Lab Collaborators: Akhavan Kazemzadeh, Sarah  Bertrand, Dyllan  Dixit, Shweta  Haworth, Brandon M.  Patel, Runa  Poustizadeh, Mana  Hamidi, Foad  Banyard, Melissa  Lee, Sunjik 

Other Collaborators: Ray Feraday (Special Education Teacher, Toronto Catholic District School Board)

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Further Details

The goals of the TalkBox Project are as follows:

• Empowerment: to provide a low-cost open-source, open-hardware Speech Generating Device (aka “SGD”) to the community, so that those who need such devices can more easily obtain them.  To empower more individuals who have disabilities be makers themselves.  To create an ecosystem of making that provides employment opportunities for high school students who have developmental disabilities.
• Community: to build a community of knowledge and practice around maker approaches to assistive technologies.
• Innovation: to make use of new modes of academic-community collaboration

This project is a collaboration with Ray Feraday and Tetra Society of North America. For more information, please visit the project page: http://talkbox.eecs.yorku.ca/.      

Melissa Banyard’s Master’s Research Project

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