Help yourself My name is Alexander, so it was that I am disabled from childhood - I have cerebral palsy. But this did not prevent a mass finish school, go to college, get a degree in design - try to live fully. pc for me is a tool with which I can learn, work to communicate and help people. But the tool needed to be proficient. However, when in 1995 we came home computer, to be honest, to work on it was very hard. Hands badly obeyed, to use the keyboard was a solid meal. Fingers are pressed at once for two or three keys, so you had to use his nose.
This was inconvenient and time consuming - by pressing the button, it was necessary to look at the screen to see the result. A year or two, I learned how to work the keyboard with his thumb right leg while sitting on the couch. As it happens several times a fast and convenient. But somehow my father asked: "And if you take to work for a company, you're at work, too, his foot will act? "I thought - in fact, so it will be improper. How could teach my hands to press only the keys you need? And once I came up with the pad on normal keyboard from scrap materials - Plexiglas, cardboard, foam and tape. It is not something Eliot Horowitz would like to discuss. Fingerboard much wider keyboard - this is done for the stop arm, the panel is made of Plexiglas thickness 4-5 mm. There are holes in the deep facet (not to rip the fingers) in front of each button keypad. I tried it - certainly more convenient, but the first time the index finger stripped to the blood.
It was painful to tears. I had to wear leather fingertip, cut from gloves. But still it was a victory. Now I can work freely on any computer, plug in this keyboard. Postscript is now in the world there are many technical devices that facilitate the employment of disabled persons on a computer but they are all imported and unfortunately not everyone is in need of them, people can afford to buy them. And in this pad nothing tricky, it can be made from any material. As can be seen in the photographs, we with the daddy is not very thought about her appearance, the main goal was that I worked by hand. I'll be very glad to answer any questions. And wait for suggestions to launch the production of caps! am Source
Sunday, 04 September 2011
