Helen Hayes Hospital has been working with the  National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies / Wadsworth Center for a number of years.  We have installed a number of  BCI-24/7 ( P300 spellers) in patients homes. Some of these patients have found the technology useful.  We will be holding the first workshop for clinicians to learn how to operate this system  at Helen Hayes Hospital in September.  If you are interested please contact me.

 

Debra Zeitlin MA, CCC/SLP, ATP
Director of Center for Rehabilitation Technology
Helen Hayes Hospital
Rt 9 W
West Haverstraw, NY 10993
xxxxxx@helenhayeshosp.org
tele: 845-786-4586
fax: 845-786-4951

 

 

 

From: xxxxxx@alsa.simplelists.com [mailto:xxxxxx@alsa.simplelists.com] On Behalf Of Hurtig, Richard R
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2015 4:29 PM
To: <xxxxxx@alsa.simplelists.com>
Subject: Re: Current BCI intervention

 

The key issue is that for many individuals, over time their ability to use some form of direct selection may be come more and more of a challenge. We are working on developing a non invasive solution that could take whatever small intentional gesture an individual can produce and making it possible to utilize optimized scanning options. We are in clinical trials now and hope to get FDA clearance later this year.
Once we have FDA clearance we will be able to make our system available.

R


Richard Hurtig, PhD, 

ASHA Fellow

Professor Emeritus 

Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders

The University of Iowa

 

President & CSO

Voxello, Inc.

www.voxello.com

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On Jul 24, 2015, at 4:18 PM, Margaret Cotts <xxxxxx@pacbell.net> wrote:

Hi Ed,

This doesn’t touch on BCI, but I thought I would put it out there…

 

I had a client about 18 years ago who had  the LC system. She was losing her eye movement.  I spoke with the folks at LC, and they put together a system whereby she could access her Eyegaze system via scanning (using side to side eye movements.)

 

I think there was a large box on the side of the screen. She would look at the box,  and that would set off the scan. When she got to the row/column she wanted, she would look at the box again, and that would activate the selection. (So, basically, the LC system itself was acting as the switch.)

 

I remember that her eye movement was so impaired by that time that she couldn’t actually use it,  but I just thought I would put it out there as a stop-gap possibility, in case it’s helpful to your client.

 

Take care,

Margaret

 

Margaret Cotts

Low Tech Solutions

 

 

From: xxxxxx@alsa.simplelists.com [mailto:xxxxxx@alsa.simplelists.com] On Behalf Of Edward Hitchcock
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2015 9:08 AM
To: 'xxxxxx@alsa.simplelists.com'
Subject: Current BCI intervention

 

Good morning all. Just writing to make sure that I am relatively up-to-date on what is most current for BCI in terms of available application?

 

I have a client who is ventilator dependent and had been successfully utilizing LC technology eyegaze. At this point we are losing some ability to move his eyes and I would like to begin preparing for next steps. There are a few things we can do to try to maximize the eyegaze edge which we are pursuing.  I have discussed EMG versus EEG with them.

 

I have a previously failed implementation of Intendix from Guger technology (I was able to get it to work pretty nicely, but for unknown reasons we were unable to get it functional with my end-stage ALS client). I don't mind reaching out to them again but I wanted to see if anyone else had any other ideas? Or other commercially available options?

 

I was going to take a look at Emotiv again, not necessarily optimistic about it but given the cost differential I thought I would consider it with them. But I have never really seen it working consistently for EEG…

 

I also let them know about brain gate but I also know it is on the east or west coast only and not sure if they are still doing it for ALS?

 

PS, if anyone knows anyone in Chicagoland who is a bit better at this than I am I am very open to hearing about it!

 

Thanks for any input, Ed.

 

Ed Hitchcock OT/L

Technology Center

Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

 

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