The invention relates to a compact and portable interactive 
system for allowing person-to-person communication in a typed language format between individuals experiencing language barriers such as the 
hearing impaired and language impaired. According to the present invention, the sComm 
system includes a custom 
laptop configuration having a display screen and one keyboard on each side of the 
laptop; and data translations means for translating the original typed data from a 
first language to a second language. The display screen will further have a split configuration, i.e., a double screen, either top / bottom or left / right depicting chat boxes, each chat box dedicated to a user. The sComm 
system will be able to support multilingual text-based conversations. In particular, a user will be able to translate, using existing translating technology, the typed text into other languages including, but not limited to, English, Spanish, Chinese, German and French. As such, one chat box can display a text in a 
first language and the other chat box can display the same text but in a second language.