var fDesc=new Array(); fDesc[0] = "My mother suffered a stroke in 2006 and had difficulty finding words, which is symptomatic of dysphasia (often known as aphasia). Her speech therapist suggested that we develop a scrapbook so that she can point out everyday objects and family members. Being a software engineer I decided to take that a step further and write a program to achieve the same end.
The program is based on navigating through various levels (click here for more details). On the first level are images of everyday objects including a house, food, drinks, clothes, etc, etc. Moving the mouse over an image prompts the software to speak the name of the object. Clicking on an image takes you to the next level, so clicking on house would take you to the various rooms in a house (living room, kitchen, bathroom, etc). Clicking on bathroom would take you to wash basin, shower, toiletries, etc. Clicking on toiletries would take you to soap, shampoo, toothpaste .... well you get the idea! It is possible to identify almost any everyday object with just a few clicks of the mouse."; function tShowHide(id, show) { var s = document.getElementById("desc"); if ((s.innerHTML.length<=212 || show==1) && show!=2) { s.innerHTML = fDesc[id]; if (document.getElementById('m1')) document.getElementById('m1').style.display='none'; if (document.getElementById('m2')) document.getElementById('m2').style.display='none'; if (document.getElementById('more_txt')) document.getElementById('more_txt').style.display='inline'; } else { s.innerHTML = ''; } }