Thanks everyone for the suggestions!

 

FYI:  The Dodger, by Minomech Technology… The Minomech Company is no longer in business

 

It sounds like the RJCooper stuff and the Minirelax stuff may work.

 

The client actually has no use of hands/arms for functional purposes. And obviously, due to the primary diagnosis, I would not recommend voice recognition items….

 

To complicate further, he does not want more stuff (i.e., a second monitor) as I said it would simplify lots of things to run them separately—he did not seem to think he would ever want to watch tv and run his computer at the same time. Not me, but that was his answer.

 

Eventually, we may have an AAC device, but at this time it’s not an option.

 

 

 

There are two products that I am aware of that will allow your computer to send IR signals.

 

http://www.minomech.com/Prod_EC_dodger.html

 

http://www.rjcooper.com/eadl-package/index.html

 

I have not used either of these devices, but in theory, you should be able to train the remote signal to these devices and assign a button on the computer to allow him to activate it with the headmouse.

 

My only concern is that some remote signals don’t train well, you may want to test the IR training part on a Tash Mini Relax or an AAC device, just to make sure that if you train the IR signal that it will perform the action.

 

Hope this helps.