Patent ID: 6331115
Filing Date: 2001-12-18
Classification: G09B,G16H

Abstract:
A method for adaptively presenting auditory/visual stimulus sets to a human subject, to train the human subject to distinguish between similar sounding phonemes, and to associate graphemes with their corresponding phonemes, each of the stimulus sets having a plurality of phonemes, the method comprising:a) providing a plurality titles to a human subject to be selected one at a time, the plurality of tiles when selected playing an acoustically processed phoneme from a stimulus set along with it's associated graphemes;b) within the provided plurality of tiles, providing each acoustically processed phoneme within the stimulus set at least two times;c) removing from the provided plurality of tiles, sequentially selected tiles that play the same acoustically processed phoneme; andd) if all of the plurality of tiles are removed in less than or equal to a predetermined number of selections, providing an alternate stimulus set for presentation to the subject, via a second plurality of tiles.