After 20 years without speech, app gives Kevin his voice back


At the Carlton Resource Centre, in Barnsley, it has purchased two iPads as well as the Grid Player application, which allows a severely disabled person to string sentences together by pressing symbols and pictures on the computer.
The Disabilities Trust also plans to introduce eye scanners at each of its six Disability Lifestyle Services centres in England. The technology allows disabled users to communicate through a computer which tracks movement in people’s eyes.
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Hide AdThe trust is in the process of trying to raise the £90,000 required to buy the life-changing equipment, which uses infrared technology enabling people with complex physical disabilities to operate a computer just using their eye movements.