Joy,
In response to your second question,
I’ve
copied a portion of a communication I had with the Maine Center
on Deafness. They were trying to find something of that nature for
one of
our pALS. I contacted another pALS who I knew had something that
seemed
to work well for him when he was still doing well enough to be left alone.
The phone he has is attached to a box. His wife
says
that the phone is a Panasonic Advance ITS. Because it’s
attached to
the box beneath it, she can’t see if there is a model number.
The
box has the following printed on it:
Able-Phone
Model # 700VA
Voice activated
She says the phone and box look as if they were intended
to
go together. The box has a power on/off switch, external microphone
jack,
whistle sensitivity setting, external switch, local control, and voice
answer
on/off.
The box can be turned on and left on by a caregiver,
apparently indefinitely. The patient can activate it by whistling and
then I believe, verbally state the number and message. I don’t
think he has to give the whole number as I believe she said it’s
programmed in. To hang up, he whistles
again.
Nell
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Nell Davies, RN, MPH
Maine Patient
Services Coordinator
The ALS Association, Northern New England
Chapter
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Center
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Street
Suite
438,
Box
314
Concord, NH
03301
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Sent: Monday, November 05,
2007
3:54 PM
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Subject: [Assistive
Technology]
Simple AAC and voice dialers
Hi everyone,
I have two questions for the group:
1) We are looking for a simple AAC device to purchase with some grant money
we
received. I'm thinking something similar to the Lightwriter, but
considerably
less expensive. It needs to have scanning access, word prediction, be
portable
(A/C connection only for charging), preferably lightweight, not
picture-based.
What suggestions do you have?
2) Does anyone know of a truly hands-free voice activated phone dialer? The
vocally phone dialer requires the user to "pick up" a handset or
press the talk button on a cordless phone. Same thing with a bluetooth
handset/voice dialing for cell phones - anything truly hands-free that does
not
require the press of a button to activate it?
Thanks for any suggestions!
Joy Meachum
Patient Services Coordinator
The ALS Association,
St. Louis
Regional Chapter
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