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Alumna’s iPad app idea gives voice to While working with children who have speech difficulties, master’s degree student Aynna Lloyd saw how useful storyboards and pictures were to helping the youngsters communicate. Lloyd only wished there was an inexpensive assistive technology that her clients could use to relate their thoughts, as an alternative to the pricey text-to-speech tools available. The 2010 WMU graduate’s notion led to the creation of an iPad app called SpeechHero that can give voice to children and adults who have trouble speaking.
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