Katherine,

Personally, I'd think simple to start with.  You mentioned she can use
the keyboard with sufficient success.  I think I'd go there first and
experiment with the keyboard adjustments under the control panel
accessibility options.  Things like adjusting key duration, sticky keys,
and mouse keys may be sufficient to get her up and going.  If the
keyboard can be adjusted to accommodate her, then it is a matter of
learning the keyboard commands to run the applications.  If adjusting
the keyboard using the built-in accessibility options doesn't work
sufficiently well enough, then I would look at more advanced
technologies like voice recognition.

Jeff

Jeffrey C. Senge
Information & Computer Access Program Coordinator
California State University, Fullerton


-----Original Message-----
From: Katherine Rankin [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 3:03 PM
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Subject: Assistive Technology for Person With Essential Tremor


                                  Assistive Technology for Person With
Essential Tremor





Does anyone know of assistive technology to help a person who has
essential tremor use a computer?  The person's hands shake so much she
can't control where the mouse moves on the screen, she has trouble
highlighting something to cut and paste it, and she has some trouble
pushing the keys, but she can mange that.  I've thought of the Microsoft
clicklock option, touch screens, foot-contolled mice, and
speech-recognition software, but I was wondering if someone knew of
anything else. Katherine Rankin ADA Coordinator University of Nevada,
Las Vegas Libraries