Opening the New Technologies of Information and Communication to the disabled people is a question of increasing interest nowadays. The TELMA project aims at developing software and hardware bricks for a telecommunication terminal (cellular phone) for hearing impaired users. This terminal will be augmented with original audiovisual functionalities. More specifically, the TELMA terminal will exploit the visual modality of speech in two main tasks. On the one hand, visual speech information is used to improve speech enhancement techniques in adverse environment (environmental noise reduction enables the hearing-impaired to better exploit his/her residual acoustic abilities). On the other hand, the terminal will provide analysis/synthesis of lip movements and Cued Speech gestures. The Cued Speech is a face-to-face communication method used by a part of the oralist hearing-impaired community. It is based on the association of lip shapes with cues formed by the hand at specific locations. The TELMA terminal will translate lipreading + Cued Speech towards acoustic speech, and vice-versa, so that hearing-impaired people can communicate between them and with normal hearing people through telephone networks. To associate scientific developments, economic perspectives and efficient integration of disabled people concerns, the project is build on a partnership between universities (INPG and ENST), industrial/service company (France Télécom, R&D division) and potential users from the hearing-impaired community, under the supervision of health professionals (Grenoble Hospital Center / ORL).