Hello Eileen,

WordAloud could be the answer.  This has a word-at-a-time display,
so your eye doesn't have to move its focus from left to right - it can fixate
at or near the centre of the screen and watch the words go by.  Actually
normal readers can read much faster with this type of display than they
can off the printed page, because you don't have to move your eyes.
(WordAloud allows a text display of between 10 and 1000 words per minute.
Go to the options box, set the Mode to "Text", and set "Text speed" to
whatever you want.)

Since WordAloud includes speech synthesis, you can also sit back and
listen to the text being spoken.

WordAloud will read text files (.txt) and web pages (.htm or .html)
directly.  You can copy text from files of other formats and read it.
To read hard copy, you will need to scan in the pages and use OCR
(optical character recognition) to obtain the text.

You can download a free copy from www.wordaloud.co.uk.  Let me know
how your client gets on.

Cheers from Chiswick,

John
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>A client whose team I will be working with had a major TBI a couple years
>ago. The injury wasn't an SCI, but it had similiar results. He is unable
>to read from left to right, even if it's on a computer screen with a
>masking feature. What they've found is that he can read if it's a single
>line of words on a strip of paper, like ticker tape. I don't know yet if a
>single-line sized viewing screen would also work.
>
>Cognitively, the guy is doing great -- his lowest grade so far has been a
>95. The team is hoping that somewhere a device exists that could convert
>computer text and/or hard-copy text into  this ticker-tape format.
>
>As always, I look forward to your ideas and suggestions!
>
>
>Eileen Haddon, ATP
>Vermont Assistive Technology Project
>
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>Eileen C. Haddon, ATP
>Vermont Assistive Technology Project
>Vermont Technical College
>Randolph Center, VT  05061
>Phone: 802-728-1520 / Fax: 802-728-1390
>
>Rehab Engineering Technology  --  Make a difference!

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