21. The method of claim 12 further comprising producing signals representative of preselected environmental sounds, and wherein said presenting comprises presenting third patterns representative of the preselected sounds.
12. A method of presenting speech information comprising producing a sequence of signals representative of speech phonemes; transforming the signals into a sequence of first and second grid patterns of points, the first pattern being a code which identifies the phoneme sound and the second pattern being another code which identifies a mouth form that produces the phoneme sound; and presenting the first and second patterns by activating presenters arranged in a multiple point grid matrix in accordance with said patterns of points.