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Flash Cards

These were used to help children identify common household items.
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I saw these same cards! I flipped one over, on the back it had a kind of magnetic strip and was stamped "hearing and speech department." I wonder what kind of machine they accompanied.
yaggy
Thu 02-24-2005
The magnetic strip had a short recording on it. You simply place the card into a player. The head on the player would read the stip, and a word would come out of a single speaker. Usualy one word. How do I know? When I was growing up back in the seventes I was considered to be " troublesome". So the "educators" of the times decided to pigion-hole me into special -ed.
Thorfin
Sun 03-20-2005
I remember them, they had them in the mid / late 1980's... The upper southern school I was at had no funds for special -ed so they used "hand me downs" from other schools. The players for these cards were heavy and teal / black or light brown / dark brown color.
Draikar
Wed 04-06-2005
My mom taught ESL (English as a Second Language) in the '70s in Calif. I remember her using those machines to teach the little Korean and Vietnamese children words.
Paulina
Wed 10-19-2005
I remember a friend in grade school who went for Special Ed and he use to use these flashcards with a special reader that he slid through.

Oh and that kid today....owns his own business and is married with four kids. Guess the flashcards worked
Joe
Thu 03-02-2006
You ran these cards through a machine called a language master. They are still in use
Franco
Thu 08-10-2006
My first primary school (Ludworth School, Marple Bridge 1982-6) had something like this, but the cards just had a single work written on them.

It took me ages to work out how they worked, eventually a manetic strip came to mind.
Richard Davies
Sun 04-22-2007
I used to sue carfds like thos eofr my speech class in school.
Lonelyand Confused
Fri 04-04-2008
no offense intented, but i feel retarted looking at these!
person
Sat 02-07-2009
I saw these in my school. I took one look at them andf totally lost interest.
ilovehorseyrides
Sun 08-16-2009
i m mental but i believe can still learn... thank you for coming... NOW CAN SOMEONE GET ME THE F%@# OUT OF HERE
karl
Fri 01-01-2010
they look lik business cards
purple dragon
Sat 06-12-2010

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