Artificial intelligence and mute autistic children
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Dr Coldwell is an anthropologist who has worked with intellectuallyhandicapped children on computers throughout the last 20 years. Hehas also worked with aboriginal children on computers, in SouthAfrica, where he discovered, for himself, that they have a fullydeveloped symbolic system of hieroglyphic symbols similar to thoseof Australian aboriginal people. Based on his research, he is tryingto develop intelligent software for them to use as they learn with theaid of microcomputers.
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Dr Coldwell is an anthropologist who has worked with intellectuallyhandicapped children on computers throughout the last 20 years. Hehas also worked with aboriginal children on computers, in SouthAfrica, where he discovered, for himself, that they have a fullydeveloped symbolic system of hieroglyphic symbols similar to thoseof Australian aboriginal people. Based on his research, he is tryingto develop intelligent software for them to use as they learn with theaid of microcomputers.