As for as my understanding is concerned, certainly the student that you mentioned will be able to use computer provided with certain adaptations. Since he is having functional limitations in his fine motor skills, it would be much easier to use head mouse for him. In addition head mouse users generally do not use keyboard for typing and they use key strokes for editing text messages. In addition they use their inhalation and exhalation capacity to do mouse clicks. Remember, "Key strokes" that I am mentioning here is not something similar that we are using our day-to-day JAWS life and the key strokes these people are using is something similar to text messaging. Since you mentioned that he prefers high quality natural speech, nowadays speech generating devices like Dynavox comes with both digitized speech and synthetic speech. I know, these technologies are expensive but demands for these kinds of technology is often getting ignored and as a consequence, these technologies are beyond the reach of those who need them..
Thank You. Your's Sathiyaprakash On 10/12/09, rakesh negi <mr.rakeshn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hai list, > > Couple of days ago, I got a typical case to handle. I came across a > person who is suffering from multiple disability. Currently he is > pursuing his tenth class & his care taker has a wish to provide him > with computer education. so that he will be able to attempt his exams > through computer. I quite appreciate the view of his care taker but > there are some impediment which makes uncomfortable him to learn > computer. > He is not able to recognize the speech of any TTS. He can recognize > only when people communicates to him through high speech. When I > discussed about it with his care taker then he told me that he is > suffering from multiple problems. He has problem of not being able to > hear clearly, has low vision & not able to sit properly. > > He told me that he did all the things for him example he provided him > with large keyboard, he also tried with magnifier software but all > these things were wasted. He also knows that the boy is not able to > keep his fingers correctly on keyboard. > > After knowing all these things, I suggested him to use talking typer, > which would help him to keep him in touch of keyboard. I know that > > its not a proper solution of this problem. But I don’t want to break > his hopes & according to me only talking typer is a software which he > can use to settle his fingers permanently on keyboard. > > Here what I am trying to convey is that all people in the list are > surely experienced and better as you have seen life & faced more > situations like this. So I wish to request you all to come up with > some valuable suggestions as it can bring change in ones’ life. > > > > > -- > Rakesh Negi > contact NO: 9968368616 > > > > To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with > the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
