Deaf and severe movement disabilities...
Technology advances in the news
Improvements in technology that allow a person to work on a computer
purely via eye movemet, and a real-time text display of spoken
English for deaf students, have both made headlines recently. Both
technologies show how close technology is to bridging the
communication gap for people with disabilities.
The Eye Gaze system was originally developed for people with
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), it is designed to use for people
who can move only their eyes. Recently the BBC reported that a
Spanish firm had won an award for its work on the system. The
company, Iriscom explains that its product, also called Iriscom,
moves the mouse pointer by tracking a person's eye movement and mouse
clicks are performed by blinking. Iriscom costs about $7,200 but is
not available in the U.S., Gaze Trackers in the U.S. are available
from EyeTech digital systems for $4,000-$8,000 (online at
http://www.eyetechds.com/homepage.html )
The National Technical Institute of the Deaf in Rochester, NY
recently received 2 grants totalling $1.1 million from the U.S. Dept.
of Education to test and evaluate its new C-Print Pro software, which
allows communication between those doing real-time captioning and
students via their computers. The new software, a newer version of
the original C-Print, will allow students to highlight the real-time
display of text and to take notes. "Some deaf and hard-of-hearing
people prefer printed text over other support services like sign
language interpreting or manual notetaking," said Pamela Francis,
coordinator of C-Print Training and Development at NTID. "C-Print Pro
is a dramatic improvement over the previous version of C-Print we
developed 15 years ago."
C-Print Pro is "designed for rapid real-time communication of text
between computers on a network specifically for providing support
services with automatic speech recognition and/or a typing-based
computerized word-abbreviation system. " To learn more about C-print,
go to http://www.jsu.edu/depart/dss/terps/cprint.html
Read more about the concept at
http://www.netac.rit.edu/publication/taskforce/realtime/
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