Patients at a rehabilitation centre are learning to talk again with the help of hi-tech engineering. A new computerised system means people with speech impediments can see where their voices are going wrong.

Report shows footage of a road accident.

Patient being lowered from an ambulance.

Close-up of a person’s mouth as they are speaking.

National Medical Rehabilitation Centre in Dún Laoughaire, County Dublin.

To camera George Devlin.

A patient using the speech programme on a computer.

Close-up of the computer screen.

Interview with Sharon Grumley, Speech Therapist on the advantages of the computer system.

Computer screen.

The reporter is George Devlin.

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