Pam,

I have a friend in Philly, who also uses a head stick to do almost
everything (I think he can even open pop cans with it), to me he is
totally amazing and I love just watching him which he is just fine with.
About cellular phones, I'm sure you know you have a phone book feature
that also acts just like voice recognition without speaking and easily
navigated, it holds 20-50 numbers.  Tonight as I was e-mailing a friend
about another project I'm giving input in, I was thinking some day, we
probably won't need the term "assistive technology" anymore, mainly
because we might be developing devices fully accessible to anybody no
matter physical ability.  People with disabilities are going to be the
ones benefiting, and the ones that the majority of future companies
won't think about as they're developing.  This is why we should support
NASA and other things dealing with technology.

I enjoy my field!!!

Thanks,
Anthony

Visit me at http://www.anthonyarnold.net/

-----Original Message-----
From: St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
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Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 12:43 AM
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Subject: Re: Sitting right on the cutting edge of technology

Go Anthony! Sounds like great ingenuity.

My speech isn't consistent enough for voice recognition systems to work
for
me, so I've got a cell phone mounted on my chair where I can both access
it
with a mouthstick and have a conversation hands free (can't hold it).
This
might work for you Mag. The volume can be turned up very loud. I really
like
the security of knowing I can call for help if my chair breaks down, and
I've had occasion to use it for that purpose.

Pam