Description: Little girl uses Speak & Spell computer toy with synthesized voice. Interview with man from Texas Instruments about development of this learning tool game with integrated speech, and on future applications of speech recognition and synthesis technology.
Description: Richard Voke, Marjorie Clapprood and Steven Pierce comment pro and con on providing for "special commissions" in the state budget. Charles Flaherty alludes to need for new taxes.
Description: Blind and deaf teens and other special needs students demonstrate inside the State House for preservation of Chapter 766 education funding in the state budget.
Description: Lobbyists and special interest groups converge in State House corridor to pressure legislators to consider funding their causes when debating budget. Rep. Paul Caron.
Description: AIDS activists and day care advocates amass on State House steps to demand better funding for their respective causes in the state budget. Larry Kessler.
Description: Sullivan Day Care Center in Tewksbury mainstreams special needs children with normal children. They all get along fine. "Light talker." Cerebral palsy. Classroom.