Anyone have any ideas on helping this
person?
I'm a special education
teacher in Harlem, New York, and I'm used to
dealing with students with
pretty serious cognitive delays. My friend
is a professional accountant
and he is about to have his jaw wired
shut for 6 months to fix some
chronic and astounding jaw pain. He
needs an adapted keyboard with a
text-to-speech output. His IQ goes
well above genius (probably 150-170),
and he'd like to keep working
with clients. He has no physio-motor
impairments to speak of. To keep
working, the voice has to sound real
and the rig needs to be portable
and somewhat unobtrusive (no Dynavox
slung around the neck with a
yellow strap). Further, he needs some input
system that moves faster
than he can currently type on a standard
computer keyboard (70 words
per minute). He expressed that the speed of
slowish speech (110-170
words per minute) should be adequate. Perhaps
some phonetic system?
I'm thinking of something akin to court
stenography, but smaller and
not taking three years to
learn.
Clinical Manager, Assistive Technology
Services
ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) Association National
Office
and Greater Philadelphia
Chapter
Direct Phone:
215-631-1877