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US 4,378,215 AGranted
Educational device especially for the blind and the blind-deaf
OwnerWilliam B. Sparksinventor
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An educational device for teaching or self-teaching the manual alphabet of the deaf to anyone, especially to the blind and/or deaf and for communicating among such persons is disclosed. A plurality of three-dimensional, actual size cast or molded figures of the human hand mounted on a base and each formed in a respective letter of the manual alphabet comprise an instructional kit for teaching the manual alphabet. Each hand figure is provided thereon with embossments of the Braille character and, preferably, the English alphabet letter corresponding to the manual alphabet letter represented by such figure. Another embodiment comprises statues or figures of human beings depicted in various poses communicating with each other by sign language with Braille characters and English alphabet letters affixed on the pedestal of the statues.
An educational device, especially for teaching the manual alphabet to the blind and the blind-deaf, comprising a three-dimensional figure representing a human hand positioned to form a given letter of the manual alphabet, said figure including means displaying a Braille character corresponding to said given letter.
An educational device, especially for teaching and communicating to the blind and the blind-deaf, comprising a three-dimensional figure representing at least one human being, at least one hand of said human figure being formed in a position of a manual language representation of a letter, word, or words and means on said figure displaying a Braille character or characters corresponding to said manual language representation.
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