a field study was made to investigate the learning needs of patients with pacemaker in shahid rajaii heart hospital's out-patient clinic (1994). a total of 60 patients with pacemaker were selected sequentially from the total population that had a pacemaker and attended the out-patient clinic in shahid rajaii hospital. the subjects met the criteria for participating in this study. the tool ...

With an increasing awareness of the needs of the disabled comes a major surge in research into ways of helping them through technology. One speciic area is the use of computer-generated speech output to overcome the disability of being non-verbal. Many such`communicators' are presently available, but they are only able to converse at a relatively low rate. This paper describes a method of impro...