Patent ID: 7172427

Claim:
A system for teaching speech to people with hearing or speech disabilities, said system including a set of visual phonemes formed to represent spoken sounds, said system further characterized by: each of said visual phonemes in said set is distinguished by having a unique shape representing an individual spoken sound; each of said visual phonemes in said set is further distinguished by having a uniquely identifiable color; some visual phonemes in said set are formed to represent individual spoken vowel sounds and some visual phonemes in said set are formed to represent individual spoken consonant sounds; the uniquely identifiable color of said visual phonemes formed to represent vowel sounds is a warm color; the uniquely identifiable color of said visual phonemes formed to represent consonant sounds is a cool color; some of said visual phonemes formed to represent individual spoken vowel sounds are visual diphthong phonemes each representing a dipthong sound combination of first and second spoken vowel sounds; the uniquely identifiable color of each of said diphthong visual phonemes is a warm color blend of each uniquely identifiable color of phonemes representing each of said first and second spoken vowel sounds of said diphthong sound combination; whereby said visual phonemes from said set may be selectively demonstrated to said people with hearing or speech disabilities such that said people observe the visual phoneme shapes and colors and learns to associate said visual phonemes with spoken sounds to be replicated.