Word: languagelab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blind person can achieve a maximum rate of 125 words per minute, provided he is skilled enough to use both hands. The average Braille reading rate is only 90 w.p.m. With Cramer's speeded speech program, however, blind children could listen to compressed speech lectures through earphones in languagelab situations at anywhere from 475 to 600 w.p.m. In the future, new techniques may raise intelligibility rates to 1000 w.p.m. A speeded speech program has already been instituted on an experimental basis at a school for the blind in Winnetka, Illinois. The Library of Congress has also expressed interest in Cramer...
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