CAD in practice at Renault

EE 54 January 1986 into speech. It received an award from the BBC radio "In Touch" programme as the year"s best invention to help the visually disabled. MEP Touch Screens are a welcome addition. These fit to the front of a com- puter screen and are a way of bypassing the stan- dard keyboard. Mike Bostock, technology manager for MEP, writes: "For many children this is not a serious inconve- nience, but such distrac- tion can become acute for very young children, those with manipulation problems, short concentra- tion spahs, or acute learn- ing difficulties." With this system, they simply have to point to the required object on the screen and the computer responds directly. The SEMERCs hold many thousands of software pro- grams. Some are commer- cially produced, others were developed by MEP groups and may be copied, without charge in Britain, for educational purposes. Mr Richards and his team in Newcastle are continually evaluating new devices and software in discussion with teacher...