Watch the video of this man giving away his software for free to help people with degenerative diseases communicate
but…. but…. profit motive! infinite houses!! this doesnt fit in my narrow victorian framework for understanding human nature!!
Oh. Oh dang. I know several people who this could help.
this genuinely makes me want to cry… I work with people who can’t communicate in traditional ways and this would help them soooooo much. I worked with a man who has since passed away, and he was fully paralyzed and ventilator-dependant so he couldn’t speak or sign, and we used an alphabet board where we’d speak the letters and he’d blink to spell out words… it was exhausting for everyone. he had a communication device like this one but it didn’t work even tho they’d spent–brave yourself–$11,000 out of pocket to buy it because the VA said it wasn’t “necessary medical equipment”… anyway, this program could’ve helped him so much and I wish it had been around a few years ago, but knowing it’s out there NOW is so awesome and if I ever meet someone like him again, I’ll know that there IS a way to help them communicate that won’t bankrupt them!