keyboard

Has anyone heard of a wheelchair that will take you to a predetermined location once you use a keybord with your eye movement with the command?

i'm a software developer, or have been a software developer, but this disease is making it tough to use the keyboard. everybody suggests voice recognition, but i have doubts about that working well for software development. the tech guy at the als clinic suggested a usb morse code input...

I am a hospice volunteer who is assigned to a wonderful guy who has ALS. I can see the deterioration in his speaking ability, with increased slurring and difficulty swallowing. He has a communication device that calibrates on the eye, and then the eye can be used to pick keys on a keyboard...

Hello friends. I just wanted to give a brief update regarding my wear-abouts lately. First I had a great trip to visit my daughter and her children but my laptop did not like their wireless network so I could only get on-line about half the time. Then I came home and back to work to discover...

Dear Al (as well as Others, Awhile back you wrote about having trouble using the Keyboard and talked about some Assistive Technology (AT), in particular Dragon Naturally Speaking. I wrote a rather long response as to how wonderful and helpful this program is but I cannot find that thread or my...

Can anyone suggest what type of equipment I might be able to get for my fathers computer? He is using a wireless keyboard but this is getting too hard for him as he is losing the function in his right hand, (he has no function in his left). Also, if there is any type of magnification for the...

Just observations.... nothing very deep. My dad is at a fairly late stage of ALS. Has choking episodes, and nowdays talks entirely thru a Lightwriter keyboard text to speech gadget. We've noticed that when he talks he coughs alot. I get concerned that his getting breathing problems and...

Hi, Everyone. We are actually 2 of us - Trina and Carla Sue - therefore "Trinasue". Trina has ALS, has already lost the ability to swallow and talk, and has a stomach tube for feeding. She has been blind for close to 40 years. The Sue half of this duo has been a friend of Trina (and her...

I have just down loaded the skeleton key system and I like it. Do any of you pals out there have some experience with it? Are there others worthy of consideration? There are some free ones but are they as good? Any comments would be welcome. For those not familiar it is a keyboard system that...

:arrow: Dear Editor Topic Health ALS. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (aka. Lou Gehrig's Disease) This disease must be made more aware of as statistics climb. ALS destroys motor neurons that are an important link in the nervous system, and through which the brain controls the voluntary...