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From: Melissa.Mead@f136.n267.z1.fidonet.org (Melissa Mead)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Jerry's Orphans
Date: 7 Oct 92 16:42:21 GMT
Reply-To: Melissa.Mead@f136.n267.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:267/136 - Access BBS, Ballston Spa NY
X-Fidonet: Able News Conference
Originator: wtm@sheldev.shel.isc-br.com

Index Number: 24746

[This is from the AbleNews Conference]

Hey, I don't like the pity approach either. Unfortunatly, that's
what a lot of people respond to. So don't be too hard on Jerry
Lewis. He's trying to do a good thing the most effective way how.
If Jerry's Orphans want to chande the public conception of the
disabled (which is wonderful), they'd do more good with
constructive actions rather than Jerry-bashing.  Missy ;)

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From: Sanford.Alexander@p0.f7.n291.z1.fidonet.org (Sanford Alexander)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Artic Transport
Date: 13 Oct 92 18:18:30 GMT
Reply-To: Sanford.Alexander@p0.f7.n291.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:291/7.0 - Union Station, Wichita KS
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference
Originator: wtm@sheldev.shel.isc-br.com

Index Number: 24906

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

I am also a fan of the Artic Transport.

... The last thing I saw was this Big Blue Wave!

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From: Christopher.Hill@p233.f4115.n124.z1.fidonet.org (Christopher Hill)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Help Getting Started With Dos 5.0
Date: 13 Oct 92 18:17:07 GMT
Reply-To: Christopher.Hill@p233.f4115.n124.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:124/4115.233 - Southern Crossroads, Grapevine TX
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference
Originator: wtm@sheldev.shel.isc-br.com

Index Number: 24897

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

The problem with the shift keys you were mentioning is an oldie.
I've heard of several reasons for it.

What it all boils down to is that the left shift line in the
keyboard controller gets stuck.  One solution is to simply press
left shift a couple of times to get its attention.  I've hheard of
several other fixes.

use dos's keybus driver, which takes over handling the keyboard for
some applications.  also changing the /machine parameter of the
himem.sys line in config.sys may help.  I don't remember any more
details.  I do know that some keyboard controller chips have it a
lot worse than others.  The controller I'm disucssing is a chip
mounted on the motherboard.  This chip, in at's and many
compatibles, handles access to the k64 called high memory by
microsoft.  Somehow this is related to the shift state problem.  A
good discussion of this has been going on in tech of late.  Hope
this helps..

Chris

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From: Joe.Chamberlain@p1.f175.n150.z1.fidonet.org (Joe Chamberlain)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Wheelchairs
Date: 9 Oct 92 20:57:22 GMT
Reply-To: Joe.Chamberlain@p1.f175.n150.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:150/175.1 - Busted Flush BBS, New Castle DE
X-Fidonet: Spinal Injury Conference
Originator: wtm@sheldev.shel.isc-br.com

Index Number: 24801

[This is from the Spinal Injury Conference]

In a message to Joe Chamberlain <16 Sep 92 20:49> Linda Cummings wrote:

 LC> Sure will, Joe.  Did you have a Medicare supplement?  Did they
 LC> pay the other 20%?

I was the medicare supplement.  Yes, I paid 20% of the 'approved
amount' and all of the unapproved remainder.

The 'approved amount' is never the same as the billed amount.
Check with your dealer as to what the 'approved amount' normally is
for the chair in your area.  He knows.

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From: Jeffrey.Vandyke@f14.n279.z1.fidonet.org (Jeffrey Vandyke)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: wheelchair lifts
Date: 9 Oct 92 21:01:17 GMT
Reply-To: Jeffrey.Vandyke@f14.n279.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:279/14 - Project Enable, Dunbar WV
X-Fidonet: Spinal Injury Conference
Originator: wtm@sheldev.shel.isc-br.com

Index Number: 24826

[This is from the Spinal Injury Conference]

KJ> JV>  Ricon also has had a new line out now that I like A LOT. It's their
KJ> JV> steel hydraulic line, and if I ever get a new one, it'll be that one.

KJ> prefer the Ricon I had on my last van. Lighter and also sits flat on
KJ> the ground. Brauns are heavier and have a big lip up to get on. Was
KJ> told Braun has a faster cycle. Goes up faster but in much slower. For
KJ> speed, they're about equal. Funny thing is I had all kinds of problems
KJ> with a leaking hydraulic system in my Braun. Guess there are problems
KJ> with all. Curious about the Ricon you mention.

  Keith, the Brauns I have been on were at least twice as fast going
up and down, but did have a problem getting started going up with
a big load. Don't remember if they ever had a problem with the
hydraulics, though. The speed IS nice when its pouring rain!
  You're right about the aluminum Ricons. Easier to get on them
in the winter when there's no bump up. Their hydraulic units DO
have a bump, though. I don't know how to describe the units, except
to say to call them and ask for a brochure. There is (if I recall
correctly) a 2000 series for regular vans, and a 1000 series for
buses. They look REAL nice.
                      -- Jeff

 * SLMR 2.1a * My other wheelchair is a Sherman tank >>>>>>>>

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From: Joe.Chamberlain@p1.f175.n150.z1.fidonet.org (Joe Chamberlain)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Miami Project
Date: 9 Oct 92 20:55:45 GMT
Reply-To: Joe.Chamberlain@p1.f175.n150.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:150/175.1 - Busted Flush BBS, New Castle DE
X-Fidonet: Spinal Injury Conference
Originator: wtm@sheldev.shel.isc-br.com

Index Number: 24790

[This is from the Spinal Injury Conference]

In a message to Derek Juntunen <12 Sep 92 18:53> Keith Jones wrote:

 KJ> Don't expect a cure.
 KJ> If it happens, great. If not, you won't be let down.

The L.A. TIMES reported yesterday a major advance in healing
damaged spinal cords was announced by two independent research
groups.

One group used fetal cell transplants to restore near normal
function in the rear legs of cats that had suffered paralyzing
spinal damage.  Apparently this is the first report of such success
for any mammal.

In a less successful experiment, the second group used a new
surgical technique, along with growth-promoting chemicals, to
restore partial function in two such rats.

The fetal cell results come at a particulary compelling time in
Washington, because Congress is again trying to overturn or modify
the Bush administration's ban on the use of human fetal cells in
government funded research.

Although the new techniques and growth-promoting chemicals used by
the researchers did not work in all the animals treated, one of the
groups, at Boston University School of Medicine, has already
attempted a simplified form of surgical  procedure in six human
patients.  The researchers said that it was too early to report the
human results.

While the studies need to be repeated and confirmed, "Both studies
are very promising," said Dr. Michael Walker, a neuroscientist at
the Mational Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

Dr. Wise Young, a neuroscientist at the New York University Medical
Center said, "I think the major message from these studies is that
regeneration of the spinal cord is possible."

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From: Patti.Bader@f1104.n202.z1.fidonet.org (Patti Bader)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Iatrogenic illness  s
Date: 7 Oct 92 15:45:47 GMT
Reply-To: Patti.Bader@f1104.n202.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:202/1104 - The Dreaming City, La Mesa CA
Originator: wtm@sheldev.shel.isc-br.com

Index Number: 24729

[This is from the Chronic Pain Conference]

| > You wouldn't happen to remember the name given to people suffering from |
| > chronic pain as a result (or mainly due to) the old type of dye used in |
| > Myelograms, would you?  I think, quite frankly, that my chronic pain has|
| > been aggravated by the old type of dye back in 1982.                    |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Hi Linda!
The name is Arachnoiditis.  I'm a contact for people in San Diego,
kind of a telephone support group.  If you'd like I can give you
the address, etc. of the Arachnoiditis Information and Support
Network.  They have loads of info and are pretty current with the
latest treatments, etc.  They have a quarterly newsletter and I can
give you a phone number of someone close to you, for support and
info.  Just let me know and I'll get you (or anyone else) info.
Thanks,
Patti

 * MegaMail 2.10 #0:

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From: Carol.Ashland@p0.f319.n105.z1.fidonet.org (Carol Ashland)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: comments from syntha-
Date: 16 Oct 92 04:07:14 GMT
Reply-To: Carol.Ashland@p0.f319.n105.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:105/319.0 - Mostly Mail, Aloha OR
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference
Originator: wtm@sheldev.shel.isc-br.com

Index Number: 25062

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 SB> exchange ideas. First, I do not believe that having access to windows,
 SB> even partially, has anything to do with blindness job competetiveness.
 SB> Surely, by now you know that corporate America is not buying Windows,

I beg to disagree with you on this one.  I have been looking at job
announcements that come through the Oregon Commission for the Blind for
many weeks now, having been laid off by that illustrious organization.
Windows is mentioned quite a bit in the job announcements I have
perused.  I don't know why so many people like it; a lot of the computer
types I know *don't* like it.  It seems to be the people who do not
think they can understand DOS and want an easy way to access the
programs that really like it.  I applied for a job with Tri-Met, our
local bus company.  They needed someone who knew Windows though, so they
wouldn't even consider me.

As to artificial intelligence:  I think it does have a place in speech
software.  ASAP uses it, as well as some of the other programs, quite
successfully.

Carol

... Alas! The poor Tagline. I knew it well.

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From: Jeff.Wheatley@hnews.fidonet.org (Jeff Wheatley)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: E-Z Braille; braille tran
Date: 14 Oct 92 15:32:33 GMT
Reply-To: Jeff.Wheatley@hnews.fidonet.org
Organization: The Handicap News, Shelton CT (203) 337-1607
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference
Originator: wtm@sheldev.shel.isc-br.com

Index Number: 24983

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

[Note from Bill McGarry -- I will get a copy of this and
 make it available for anonymous ftp and will make an
 announcement when it is ready.]

Anyone who needs to produce braille material for themself or for
others, regardless of their braille knowledge level, should try the
demonstration version of E-Z Braille.  An installation program
installs it on your computer, the context sensitive help and window
interface make it easy to setup and use.  E-Z Braille automatically
recognizes what word processing program created a document.  It
reads, reformats and brailles the document in one step without
special braille formatting codes.
*
Download EZBRAILL.EXE from the MicroTalk BBS or contact:
*
High Expectations
1012 Reilus Court
Lexington, KY  40517
(606) 273-6640

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From: Doug.Geoffray@f8.n369.z1.fidonet.org (Doug Geoffray)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: trivia question again.
Date: 13 Oct 92 18:17:52 GMT
Reply-To: Doug.Geoffray@f8.n369.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:369/8 - The Catwalk BBS, Davie FL
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference
Originator: wtm@sheldev.shel.isc-br.com

Index Number: 24902

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 DT>         You say it would be easy to change the user interface
 DT>         on Vocal-eyes to accept a three number digit.  Wouldn't
 DT>  a person need that if they were to have their system in one of
 DT>  the new VGA modes? On the other hand would we be able to get
 DT>  speech if it went into a mode that had the wider screen of say
 DT>  130 characters per line?  Wouldn't that be a graphics mode

David,
  Well, I just know read your message from July.  Boy am I behind in my
  reading.  Actually, a video board does not necessarily go into a graphics
  mode when you go beyond 80 characters per line.  Some systems however do
  go into a weird configuration which is completly non standard.  But for
  the most part, Vocal-Eyes would work fine on these systems.  Not all systems
  would work but I believe most would.

Regards,
Doug

... GW Micro -- Fort Wayne, IN -- (219) 483-3625

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From: Joe.Chamberlain@p1.f175.n150.z1.fidonet.org (Joe Chamberlain)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: New Nerve Regeneration Operation
Date: 9 Oct 92 20:58:13 GMT
Reply-To: Joe.Chamberlain@p1.f175.n150.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:150/175.1 - Busted Flush BBS, New Castle DE
X-Fidonet: Spinal Injury Conference
Originator: wtm@sheldev.shel.isc-br.com

Index Number: 24806

[This is from the Spinal Injury Conference]

In a message to All <18 Sep 92 14:39> John Lynch wrote:

 JL> Ok, just heard this yesterday, some doctor on the east coast is
 JL> going to operate on 6 ( I think) paraplegics and use a technique
 JL> that has show some nerve regeneration on
 JL> cats.  Is there hope yet?  Meow, Meow.

The surgery has been done.  They are now evaluating the results.
This is the Boston study.

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From: Jackie.Burtch@p19.f645.n105.z1.fidonet.org (Jackie Burtch)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: RSD Group
Date: 7 Oct 92 14:28:50 GMT
Reply-To: Jackie.Burtch@p19.f645.n105.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:105/645.19 - Rob's Wreck Room, Longview WA
Originator: wtm@sheldev.shel.isc-br.com

Index Number: 24704

[This is from the Chronic Pain Conference]

On (28 Sep 92) Mike Lyons wrote to Jackie Burtch...

 ML>  JB>      Mike..  just a word of  caution..  seriously
 ML>  JB> question (interrogate) your
 ML>  JB> doctor if he  in any way  tries to order  steroids for
 ML>  JB> your  dads rsd..
 ML>
 ML> I am not positive, but I don't beleive my dad is on any steroids.  I
 ML> think that he might have taken them at one time, but the thing that
 ML> makes RSDS worse with my dad is that he is allergic to almost all
 ML> medicine.  It kinda limits the choices to give him for pain relief.
 ML> He will be going to Cleveland OH. soon to see the best in the nation.
 ML> Right now, his only alternatives seem to be an morphine pump or a (its
 ML> pronouced fent-a-nul) pump.  So we are hoping that Cleveland will have
 ML> some other alternatives, but from all the information we have about it
 ML>  we kinda doubt it.
 ML>
 ML>
 ML>  JB> He is now 40 with
 ML>
 ML> My dad is 43 and has had it for three years.
 ML>
 ML>  JB> one titanium hip.. while they wait for the other one to finish
 ML> crumbeling
 ML>  JB> <they want him to suffer with it as long as possible <even months
 ML> matter i
 ML>  JB> guess> due to his age and size <6 ft) they do not WANT
 ML>
 ML> Who are you refering to when you say "they want him..."?
 ML>
 ML>  JB> to do this until the
 ML>  JB> bitter end because he is so young.   With nothing for pain <they
 ML> dont want
 ML>  JB> an addict after all> <rolling eyes>.  So the hell he has been
 ML> through the
 ML>  JB> last 5 years is even worse then the rsd of the leg alone.  It
 ML> caused his
 ML>  JB> massive heart attack last winter.
 ML>
 ML> Are you seeing an RSDS specialist?  And if so, is he trying to get
 ML> treatment?
 ML> Was the heart attack caused by the medicine?  Well, I need to get
 ML> going.
 ML>
 ML>                               Take it easy...  Mikey.
 ML>

Hi mike :)  Michael has had RSD since 1985 he was in his early 30's then

*they* refer to the university of oregon health sciences center and the
university of washington medical center.

He has been seen by the best for years.  There is nothing they can do and
choose not to even address the issue of his pain.  University of Seattle is
the one who pushed the steroids.

Nope heart attack not brought on by medicine.  Heart attack brought on by
pain and suffering and prolonged stress.

I dont think there is an RSD treatment short of amputation or permanent
blocks that has not been done to mike.

thanks Mike type to you soon :
jackie

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From: Eric.Bohlman@p3.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Eric Bohlman)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Speech
Date: 16 Oct 92 04:02:18 GMT
Reply-To: Eric.Bohlman@p3.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:129/89.3 - BlinkLink, Pittsburgh PA
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference
Originator: wtm@sheldev.shel.isc-br.com

Index Number: 25050

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 AF> In my search for Speech systems I have been contacting various people
 AF> who I think might know from their correspondence with others something
 AF> about it. And this has been good but it occured to me there must be an
 AF> outlet for all these companies to advertise in.
 AF> Does anyone know of such a magazine or journal? If so please provide
 AF> address so I can write to them.

There's Closing the Gap, which has ads from most of the major
makers of augmentative/alternative communication systems and from
several manufacturers of synthesizers aiming at the non-visual
access market.  They're a bimonthly tabloid.  Their address is P.O.
Box 68, Henderson, MN  56044.

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From: Richard.Stevenson@p6.f203.n221.z1.fidonet.org (Richard Stevenson)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Artic Speech
Date: 14 Oct 92 15:32:41 GMT
Reply-To: Richard.Stevenson@p6.f203.n221.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:221/203.6 - City Limits, Cambridge ON
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference
Originator: wtm@sheldev.shel.isc-br.com

Index Number: 24984

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

G'day Steve:

In a msg of <Tuesday September 29 1992>, Steve Bauer writes to *all*:

 SB> I am running Artic 3.03 and have come up with two words that I can
 SB> notget it to say correctly.

 SB> The first is Debbie.  No matter if you spell it Debi, Deby, Debby
 SB> etc, it won't say it correctly.  I have tried many phonetic spellings
 SB> and no luck.  Any ideas?

Well I seem to remember that I had to use Debee with an old VS-100
Alpha voice synthesizer. Don't know if it'll work with the Artic.

 SB> The other is the company name A T & T.  In the exception dictionary
 SB> when you put in A space, T space the and sign and a space followed by
 SB> a  T it says it fine, but in actual reading the synthesizer says the
 SB> word  at and then and t.

What happens if you enter in A.T. & T.

I'll look through my old book of synthesizer phonetics and see if
it has any suggestions.

Richard Stevenson

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From: Dan.Kysor@f730.n203.z1.fidonet.org (Dan Kysor)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Welfare Mentality
Date: 13 Oct 92 18:17:23 GMT
Reply-To: Dan.Kysor@f730.n203.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:203/730 - QST, Sacramento CA
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference
Originator: wtm@sheldev.shel.isc-br.com

Index Number: 24899

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

curtis, loved your response to doug coyle's rather narrow view of the
dependent blind on ssi and or welfare.
 CC> People who live on SSI and SSDI do need encouragement and
 CC> incentives to get out and work.  And, yes, some of them do need
 CC> to be kicked in the butt to get them out of their homes and into
 CC> the job market.  Part of the problem is that rehab (the place we
 CC> all go at one time or another) doesn't have the belief and the
 CC> guts to do it.
 CC> The fact of the matter is that there are some very real problems
 CC> for the rehab system to address: poor attitudes and lack of
 CC> understanding on the part of employers, training centers that
 CC> only teach you the physical techniques needed to function without
 CC> sight and which do nothing to help you to feel good about your
 CC> blindness, childhood conditioning which sets the blind apart and
 CC> reinforces negative attitudes and stereotypes, an education
 CC> system that does not provide instruction in braille to blind kids
 CC> who happen to have a little sight, so-called "vision" (do they
 CC> teach vision, I wonder) teachers who do not even know basic
 CC> braille, attitudes which do not provide blind kids with canes at
 CC> an early age, all those things.
GREAT!!!! as a council of the blind member, we share common ground.  This
reminds me of a blind friend who was on ssi and suddenly became employed
and chastized the rest of us still receiving aid for being no good bums and
why don't we get out of our back bedrooms and get a job.  A couple of years
later, I was working for a large insurance company and ran into this fellow
on rapid transit and low and behold, he was unemployed and I, fortunately,
was gracious enough during the pregnent pause not to remind him about his
earlier comments.
 CC> the problem.  Those of us who are fortunate enough to be
 CC> self-supporting, employed, and successful better take a look
 CC> around and smell the coffee, too.  It's a pretty rotten world out
 CC> there, still today.  We who are employed and making money are not
 CC> imune from prejudice, arbitrary and unreasonable requirements,
 CC> and discrimination.
normally don't quote so much but really, that was one of the best messages
i've ever read on this echo!!!
dan kysor
... "I SURE FEEL MORE LIKE NOW THAN I DID AWHILE AGO!"

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From: Carla.Campbell@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Carla Campbell)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Vacation Spots For The Bd
Date: 14 Oct 92 15:27:02 GMT
Reply-To: Carla.Campbell@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:129/89.0 - BlinkLink, Pittsburgh PA
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference
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Index Number: 24950

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 LR> don't have the problem of fumbling you're way around as in a
 LR> regular vacation spot,

Ok, I'm not trying to be dense here, honest! I'm curious: what is
different about these (this) resort(s) which makes it unnecessary to
fumble about-- I mean, what modifications have been made to the
facilities to make them especially accessable?

I'm not criticising your choice of vacation spots-- I don't doubt you
have met a lot of nice people there for one minute.  I, too, prefer
smaller vacation spots to large, commercial resorts.  I just haven't
been to a lot of places, resorts or otherwise, which are designed with
blinks in mind and can't imagine what they're like.

Thanks.
                                                 --Carla

... Read what I mean, not what I write!

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