Deaf Children Learn to Sign By Toying With RFID

[Francis Hult]

RFID Journal

 

Deaf Children Learn to Sign By Toying With RFID

 

When early-childhood instructor Susannah Ford takes out her bucket of RFID-enabled toys at the Louisiana School for the Deaf, the children, ages three to five, gather quickly. These small cars, airplanes and stuffed animals look like any other toy, except each is equipped with a passive 125 kHz RFID tag to help the kids learn how to use sign language.

 

Full story:

http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/5199

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