I gave my daughter a talking watch at the age of 3, and a talking calculator at the age of 5. She knows what the symbols are; and has been able to tell me time for a while. She is a bit over 5 (by months) now and can look at a digital and say it without trouble.
On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Lenny McHugh wrote: > I found this quite interesting. I was showing a contractor my talking tape > measure. He wanted information on where to purchase a unit. He thinks that > it can help teach some of his workers how to read a tape measure. It reminded > me of the time that someone from the Department of Defense in 1980 contacted > me about my talking computer. He wanted to purchase 100 units because he had > people in the warehouse that could not read. > > Lenny, Please visit my home page http://www.geocities.com/lenny_mchugh/ > It's motivating, humorous and has a lot of resources. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >