Ann M Brown

US Patent:

20040096808, May 20, 2004

Filed:

Nov 20, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/301525

Inventors:

Amy Price - Columbus OH, US
Ann Brown - Westerville OH, US

International Classification:

G09B021/00

US Classification:

434/112000, 434/365000

Abstract:

A communication assist device that includes, among other features and elements, a cover carried from a strap and that incorporates a stylized outside covering imprinted with a preselected pattern indicia for improved appearance. The device further includes a plurality of releasably or fixedly bound and transparent pocket pages having an accessible interior pocket or interstice sized to receive one or more of a plurality of indicia sheets. The sheets are preferably to be retained in the interior pocket during use to be observable through the sheet material. Each of the indicia sheets are also preferably imprinted with a plurality of indicia selected from categories of indicia that include an alphabet, a character set, numbers, arithmetic and mathematical symbols, dimension measurement units, metaphoric icons, images, pictures, graphics, symbols, glyphs, phonemes, words, phrases, sentences, wherein such categories of indicia are preselected to depict people, places, things, actions, activities, weather, food, emotions, business, academics, sports, and medicine and healthcare. The instant invention may also preferably or optionally include retainers in the cover, in the pocket pages, and or formed as a replacement to a pocket page for incorporating a retainer that receive an interactive data device such as a Palm Pilot or similarly capable data device. In yet other configurations, the instant invention can also incorporate any of a number of audio playback devices that can be button actuated and battery powered, which can record or be recorded with preselected audio segments that can be desired sounds, words, phrases, sentences, and the like.