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Google Action Blocks for people with cognitive disabilities

Google Action Blocks for people with cognitive disabilities

San Francisco, Oct 3 (IANS) Aimed especially at helping people with cognitive disabilities, Google has announced a new accessibility tool named Action Blocks which would allow users to pre-write Google Assistant commands and place shortcuts to them on their home screen.

Action Blocks are an expansion of ‘DIVA’, the accessibility initiative announced by the tech giant back at the I/O 2019…

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z-ul0GzzM4)

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Avaz: Expanding the Vocabulary of Special Needs Children

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This is fascinating! Ajit Narayanan talks about how he considers the data structure of thought to develop a picture-to-word game to help children with autism communicate.

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Ajit Narayanan: A word game to communicate in any language

While working with kids who have trouble speaking, Ajit Narayanan sketched out a way to think about language in pictures, to relate words and concepts in "maps." The idea now powers an app that helps nonverbal people communicate, and the big idea behind it, a language concept called FreeSpeech, has exciting potential.