VTech dominates two niche markets: electronic learning aids for kids and high-frequency cordless telephones.

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All these things can be used as learning aids.

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The Dakar Conference will just be another talking shop if governments are allowed to give lame excuses about shortcomings in girls education, run-down schools, inadequate teaching-learning aids, poor teacher supply, and funding.

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Accordingly, blind learners are provided with various learning devices and aids including Braillette boards and Perkins Braillers for use in class, talking calculators, pins for learning the Braille alphabet, egg boxes and ping pong balls for initial Braille lessons.

UNESCO: Kha Ri Gude (Let Us Learn) Adult Literacy Programme (KGALP)

Though the receptors got their name through their association with nicotine, their primary function in the brain is to regulate the release of a variety of neurotransmitters, including acetylcholine, which aids learning and memory.

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Learning materials about HIV and AIDS give girls and women the knowledge and skills to cope with the pandemic.

UNESCO: Third International Congress on TVET

The specific objective of this initiative is to diversify literacy and post-literacy programmes in terms of intervention approach, teaching methods, educational aids, sustainability of learning outcomes and the integration of literacy into the process of sustainable development, the prevention of poverty, and the socio-economic integration of beneficiaries.

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Use of appropriate teaching aids: The programme uses learning materials that learners encounter in their daily lives, but simplified to correspond with their reading level.

UNESCO: Adult Literacy Tutors Association (ALTA)

The new technology is coming from outfits like Advantage Learning Systems, a small but fast-growing software company in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. that sells instructional aids and computerized quizzes to monitor their results.

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