Hi Lisa,

We have extra TrackIRs if that would be useful. Which Windows OS?

Sincerely,

Amy Roman, MS, CCC-SLP
Augmentative Communication Specialist

Forbes Norris ALS Research Center
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--- On Mon, 7/23/12, lisa <xxxxxx@alsaohio.org> wrote:

From: lisa <xxxxxx@alsaohio.org>
Subject: tracker 2000
To: xxxxxx@alsa.simplelists.com
Date: Monday, July 23, 2012, 8:11 AM

Hi Everyone,

Short story: I am looking for a tracker 2000

Long story:

About a year and a half ago, I loaned a patient an old PRC device with a tracker 2000 while I did her evaluation and waited for insurance funding. I recommended a device with eye control since she was losing her head control. She did great on equipment trials. Funding was Medicaid so I was worried about getting a head control and then having to go back and ask for eye control…especially if funding took forever…

The patient ended up hating her eye control device ( multiple reasons: didn’t want the device so close to her, obstructed her view of her TV screen and family members, caregivers seem to have trouble positioning the device, and other reasons—except that she didn’t tell me any of this until AFTER the 30-day return period—even though I asked). She LOVED the PRC device and the tracker 2000…. Multiple times I went out to get her to use the new device, and she does great with it and caregivers seem to do well with it—while I AM THERE, etc…but she keeps going back to the old device. She is over an hour and a half away from me. I don’t remember if I had follow through from local slp…

Anyway, over the weekend, she went to a reunion and the tracker 2000 is now broken.

Easiest solution would be to loan her another tracker 2000- except I don’t have any more.

Next, use the new device, but she’s not so keen on that… I suppose we can use a headmouse on her new device…

I do not think the PRC device is able to handle a USB trackerpro—I believe it is sufficiently old enough that it only has a serial port…

So, back to easy solution: Anyone have an old tracker 2000 which still works that you would be willing to give her?

If you have other ideas, I’d be open to suggestions.

Thanks much!

Lisa M. Bruening, M.S., CCC-SLP
Patient Services Coordinator
The ALS Association
Northern Ohio Chapter
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