The US Department of Health and Human Services has teamed up with LeapFrog — makers of the children’s learning toy, the LeapPad — to use the talking books as teaching aids for illiterate Afghan people, especially women. In a country where almost 80% of women cannot read, the 42-page interactive books provide health information about diet, pregnancy, sanitation, and other important topics in either of Afghanistan’s two primary languages, Dari and Pashto.
LeapPad uses regular paper pages with a stylus that recognizes which pictures are being touched, triggering an audio playback from through an on-board speaker.
Read – Talking books used to help improve health care in Afghanistan [ComputerWorld]
