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                             THE HANDICAP DIGEST

                                 Issue # 3016

                          Monday, November 09, 1992

Today's Topics:


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                          Spelling prediction progr
                          Re: weather problems? wha
                          Small planes w hand contr
                          Re: weather problems? wha
                           Portable shower chairs
            Myo-Electric Control Symposium 1993 - call for papers
                                  SOUNDBEAM
                                  Lift-Gate
                        Electronic Access to Congress
         Conference on Individual Differences & Reading Disabilities


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Subject: Spelling prediction progr
From: Bill.Wise@f3.n157.z1.fidonet.org (Bill Wise)
Organization: FidoNet node 1:157/3 - Nerd's Nook, Rocky River OH


[This is from the Spinal Injury Conference]

MO>i type using a mouthstick and such a program would sure speed up
MO>my writing. does anyone know about these?

There is a shareware program called Mind Reader that is a word
processor which includes word prediction.  It is available from
Brown Bag Software I have a copy around somewere that I could make
available for you.  It also has a calculator & address book and
will do mail merges.  If you are typing less than 5 WPN
(30char/min) this program should help.  If you are typing over 5WPM
then this might not be much help.  This program is also compatible
with one finger & access DOS.

Let me know if you have problems finding it.  I could mail or modem it.

Bill \\'ise
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 * DeLuxe 1.1 #8809 * Murphy was an optimist!

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Subject: Re: weather problems? wha
From: John.Rougeau@p4.f184.n132.z1.fidonet.org (John Rougeau)
Organization: FidoNet node 1:132/184.4 - The Bulldog BBS !, Hudson NH


[This is from the Spinal Injury Conference]

In a message of <Oct 30 13:01>, Greg Wick (1:343/45) writes vaguely:

CS>I'm 50 - C4-5 quad since '76.  Consider this:  Are you sure you
CS>want warm?  I find heat & humidity far more oppressive than cold
CS>since I don't sweat.  Also consider that you are really in '24-hr'

 >I like the heat but not the humidity. The wet air always makes me colder.

Me too (I'm a C5-6 quad)!

 >Dry heat is real good. I would rather be to hot then to cold, with in
 >reason. When I'm cold, I get tence, I spazm more, I get a stiff neck,  and
 >get tierd. When I'm hot, I get tierd, and lightheaded, and sometimes feal
 >like I'm not getting enough air to breath. But over all I like heat.

I get all tense, knotted muscles....even depression, from being cold!  I know
just what you mean...(living in NH)

 I
 >always wear a turtle neck, a sweater, and have the wood stove going. No
 >one can stand being in the same room... It's to hot. I'm a C-4-5 quad
 >since 82, I do like the sun. I feal more like doing thing and going
 >places. When It's not warm and sunny I don't leave the house much... So

Cold, wet (damp) weather interferes with my "quality of Life".....sigh.....

 >Seattle isn't the greatest for that... Masybe North Arizona, Mid
 >California. Some place sunny, warm, and dry...
 >===

How 'bout NM? AZ? Southern CO?  (Calgon, take me away!)  :-)

-J-J-John

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Subject: Small planes w hand contr
From: Linda.Lindsey@f24.n3602.z1.fidonet.org (Linda Lindsey)
Organization: FidoNet node 1:3602/24 - ADAnet One (tm) Net, Pinson AL


[This is from the Spinal Injury Conference]

I have the name of one of our former SCI patients who has gotten
his pilot's license.  He does use had control.  He said you  can
reach him by phone  (205-925-0429) work/  or (205-629-6848) home.
Terry said you can probably reach him easier at his work number.
If you want to write him he is at 4 Lynwood Dr., Odenville, AL
35120.   His name is Terry Capps.

 # Origin: ADAnet(tm) NetHub Birmingham, Alabama (205)854-9074  (94:94/1)

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Subject: Re: weather problems? wha
From: Tim.Syfert@p0.f119.n114.z1.fidonet.org (Tim Syfert)
Organization: FidoNet node 1:114/119.0 - Flea Circus, Phoenix AZ


[This is from the Spinal Injury Conference]

 GW> and sunny I don't leave the house much... So Seattle isn't the
 GW> greatest for that... Masybe North Arizona, Mid California. Some place
 GW> sunny, warm, and dry... ===

Northern Arizona gets pretty cold. Snow is very common there in the
winter. Phoenix to Tucson is a better bet as far as winters go. No snow,
at least it's really rare. BUT, you get basically stuck in the house for
about 4-5 months because of the 100+ temps in the summer, but at least
your always comfortably warm because you can always adjust the air
conditioner for comfort. When the sun goes down its not too bad outside
at all. Being a quad, I'd much rather be stuck inside because its too
hot outside than too cold. From the "Valley of the Sun".......

                                             Tim

                                             82 deg. today   11/2

... Just testing this tagline....

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Subject: Portable shower chairs
From: Richard.Fleck@p0.f420.n141.z1.fidonet.org (Richard Fleck)
Organization: FidoNet node 1:141/420.0 - The Handicap News, Shelton CT


[This is from the Spinal Injury Conference]

Hi There

I'm new to this so forgive me any mistakes.

I'm a C6-C7 Quad since 88

What I'm looking for is a portable shower chair
that I can take traveling.  Basically something
like the Active Aid tubby II but more compact
when packed.  Like the size of a small suitcase.

Anybody out there have any recommendations?

Thanks

Rich Fleck

fleck@sybil.cs.buffalo.edu

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Subject: Myo-Electric Control Symposium 1993 - call for papers
From: aa92@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Tomasz Hruczkowski)
Organization: University of New Brunswick

Please post, forward or distribute in your department.
Thanks.
Tomasz W. Hruczkowski <tomasz@unb.ca>

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                                    MEC '93

                            Fredericton, NB, Canada

                               August 16-20, 1993


The 1993 Myoelectric Control Symposium (MEC '93) is a five day
meeting which will provide those involved in all aspects of
myoelectric control with an opportunity to meet and present
important new work at an international forum.  This is a departure
in format from previous years where the emphasis was on
instruction.  The new format will include keynote addresses, paper
and poster sessions as well as panel discussions.

Keynote Speakers:

  D.S. Childress       Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Biomedical
                       Engineering
                       Northwestern University Rehabilitation
                       Engineering Program
                       Chicago, IL, USA

  J.W. Michael         Director of Education
                       Otto Bock, Minneapolis, MN, USA

  S. Hubbard           Clinical & Research Therapist, Amputee Program
                       Hugh MacMillan Rehabilitation Centre, Toronto,
                       ON, Canada

  J.W. Varni           Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
                       University of California, San Diego, CA, USA

For Whom:

This program is intended for physicians, academics, prosthetists,
orthotists, therapists and others involved in clinical application
or research into myoelectric control.  Participation by
multidisplinary clinic teams and students in training is both
welcomed and strongly encouraged.

Submission Details:

Clinicians and researchers are invited to submit original papers
and/or posters in the following areas:

  - Myoelectric control research      - Myoelectric orthotics
  - New technologies                  - Signal & prosthetic training
  - Client management                 - Psycho-social adaption
  - Myoelectric prosthetics           - Multiple limb deficiencies
  - Service delivery                  - Case studies

A 500-1000 word abstract, written in English, must be submitted no
later than March 1st 1993.  The title of the presentation along
with the names and affiliations of all authors, including a
complete mailing address, must appear at the top of the abstract.
Please state clearly whether this abstract will be presented as a
paper or poster.  All manuscripts will be critically reviewed by
the Technical Program Committee.  First named authors will be
notified of acceptance of submissions by APRIL 30, 1993, when a
preliminary program will be announced.  The paper presentations
will be conventional platform sessions with a total time of 20
minutes per paper.

Exhibits:

Maintaining the past tradition, MEC '93 will provide exhibits by
major international manufacturers of myoelectric control
components.


Completed abstracts and any further inquiries shall be sent to the
following address

                         Institute of Biomedical Engineering
                         University of New Brunswick
                         P.O. Box 4400
                         Fredericton, NB
                         E3B 5A3
                         Telephone:    (506)453-4966
                         FAX:          (506)452-1040

                         E-mail (Internet): biomed@unb.ca


                      DEADLINE FOR PAPERS:  MARCH 1st 1993






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Subject: SOUNDBEAM
From: xuegxac@CSV.WARWICK.AC.UK (Mike Burleigh)

[Forwarded from the CHATBACK mailing list]

Hi CHATBACK people,



I have just been viewing a video demonstrating a new system to empower
the disabled and have to tell you all about it.

The 'SOUNDBEAM' uses a transducer to create a modifiable cone within which
a person's movements are translated into musical sounds.

The 'active' area of the beam can be set for gross or fine motor movements.
Thus kids can create their own music with either large bodily movements or
the active area of the beam can be focussed to enable a wheelchair bound
person for example to operate the full range of an electronic keyboard by
the movement of a finger.

The video gives some indication of the worlds that this can open up for the
disabled.

I was spell bound.

For further information contact:                        Technical info:
Tim Swingler              Edward Williams               Robin Wood
EMS Soundbeam             EMS Soundbeam                 EMS Soundbeam
87 Mill Hill Road         10 Cornwallis Crescent        Trendeal Vean Barn
Norwich NR2 3DR           Clifton                       Ladock
Tel +44 0603 631647        Bristol BS8 4PL              Cornwall TR2 4NW
                          Tel +44 0272 738024           Tel +44 0726 883265

To talk to someone who is using SOUNDBEAM contact:

Tony Ord, Calthorpe School, Birmingham  021 552 3373
Sally Silverman, Avon Service for Special Education Needs 0272 506838
Mark Gray, RNIB Training Officer 021 643 9912
Adam Okelford, RNIB Music Education Adviser 081 968 8600
Miles Pilling, St John's (SLD) School, Bedford 0234 345565
Colin Lovell, Ashmount school, Loughborough 0509 268506

report submitted by Mike Burleigh
==================================================================
=    Mike Burleigh         JANet <UBJVM6Q@CCS.BBK.AC.UK>         =
=  Director KIDLINK UK     KIDLINK <y0micbur@xon.co.uk>          =
=  Oldfield House School   Dialcom 10001:CLK003                  =
=  Oldfield Road           APC/GreenNet mikeb@gn.apc.org         =
=  Hampton                 Voice +44 81-941-3887 evening         =
=  Middlesex TW12 2HP            +44 81-979-5102 day             =
=  United Kingdom            fax +44 81-783-0207                 =
==================================================================




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Subject: Lift-Gate
From: statz@gagme.chi.il.us (Louis B. Del Boccio)
Organization: Gagme Public Access UNIX, Chicago, Illinois.
Distribution: usa

>> FOR-SALE ---------- Wheelchair lift gate will fit most late
                       model vans works very well. Is now installed
                       in a bus. PRICE = Make an reasonable offer
                       price will be lower if you remove the lift.

                      E-Mail for more info......






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Subject: Electronic Access to Congress
From: patt@squid.tram.com (Patt Bromberger)


Forwarded from: Frank Odasz, Director of Big Sky Telegraph
      franko@bigsky.dillon.mt.us

RE: I'd like to invite everyone interested to respond directly
to my Internet ID (above) regarding the following congressional
request for input! CoSN members can be particularly helpful with
the POLICY questions toward the end of the list! Please feel free
to disseminate the following.

Congressional input for this study can also be forwarded to Tom
Grundner at Cleveland Freenet - telnet 129.22.8.76 or telnet
129.22.8.75. Tom's voice number is 216-368-2733. Tom is focusing
on gathering urban input while Big Sky Telegraph is gathering
rural input. EVERYONE is invited to contribute to this study.
Feel free to add your own questions and answers and/or to answer
the listed questions in whatever manner suits you.

     CONGRESSIONAL OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT STUDY AND
                 WESTERN'S BIG SKY TELEGRAPH
          CONNECT ELECTRONICALLY TO CITIZENS FOR INPUT.

The US Congressional Office of Technology Assessment is
conducting a major study and has contracted with BIG SKY
TELEGRAPH of Western Montana College to solicate from citizens
suggestions regarding the potential of information technology to
allow the Federal government to be more responsive to rural and
small town America in the dissemination of Federal services and
information. BILLIONS of your tax dollars are spent each year
disseminating Federal services and information!

THE CHALLENGE:
"Electronic technologies might reduce the need for some layers of
bureaucracy, help bring government services more directly to the
citizens, and, by so doing, provide better services more
cheaply."

One goal of this study is to determine if citizens CARE enough to
respond to the opportunity to advise congress DIRECTLY, if given
the opportunity. This IS YOUR opportunity! The hope is that
grassroots input will provide innovative ideas and approaches.

EVERYONE interested is invited to respond to ANY or ALL of
the following questions and engage in online discussions with any
of the other participants. Access to Big Sky Telegraph is
available at no charge using a modem at 406-683-7680. Select
M)essages from the Main Menu, then select the USCONGRESS
conference. Big Sky Telegraph's voice number is 406-683-7870.

The conference will be held from September 1 - December 1, 1992,
solicating online written comments and opinions from teacher,
student, and citizen users of Big Sky Telegraph. All messages
will be printed and included as appendices to the study. A
summary 30-40 page double-spaced report from Big Sky Telegraph is
due in draft form Nov. 9, the final report is due Dec. 18, 1992.

PLEASE share your views on the following questions, and feel free
to ask your OWN!

1. What are citizen needs and desires for the electronic
   services?

2. If the appropriate technology were in place, what would
   citizens like to be able to DO and how would their lives
   improve?

3. What are the opportunities for improvement in the productivity
   and efficiency of service and information delivery?

4. What problems might arise with both service provider and
   citizen acceptance of electronic delivery?

5. What might be the requirements for education, training,
   and equipping of recipients?

6. How would electronic access impact users who are senior
   citizens, or disabled, or who live in rural settings?

7. What might be the requirements for training of service
   providers?

8. What services that are reasonably representative of the types
    of Federal services provided to small towns might be best
    suited to electronic delivery?

9. What services and technical applications might highlight
   opportunities for innovation in service delivery?

10. What are the prerequisites of successful implementations with
   attention to facilitators and inhibitors of innovations?

11. How might the services, delivery mechanisms, and related
    policy/management frameworks be redesigned?

EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONS:  What should the federal policy
be with regard to supporting K-12 and other educational
applications using computer networks?

1. What computer network or information services could the
  federal government provide access to which would make our
  K-12 schools better?

2. Does the federal government have an obligation to provide more
  than access to services, must it also insure equitable access
  to these services for all schools and provide the necessary
  training to use these services effectively?

3. Should the federal government have a responsibility to assist
  in corporate and business training programs, or should it stop
  at the K-12 or college levels?

POLICY QUESTIONS: (These questions may be too technical for some
people.)

1. What might be the requirements for the government
   telecommunication and computing technology infrastructure
   needed to support electronic delivery, including appropriate
   technical standards to ensure systems compatibility and
   interoperability?

2. What consistency of electronic service delivery innovations
   exists with the current policy/management framework?

3. What policy/management changes that may be needed to implement
   technology-enhanced service delivery to rural/small town
   America?

How could electronically delivered service applications be
implemented to take into account the following policy/mangagement
considerations?

1. equity of electronic access to Federal services

2. protection of citizen privacy in Federal record systems

3. prevention/detection of fraud, waste, and abuse in program
   management and service delivery

4. protection of the security and integrity of systems used for
   electronic service delivery

5. appropriate retention and archiving of records and information
   related to electronic service delivery

6. consistency with annual and five-year agency planning for
   telecommunications and information resource management

7. relationship to agency automation programs and activities

8. relationship to FTS2000, NREN, and other Federal information
   technology programs

9. opportunities presented by electronic service delivery for
   synergy/economies of scale across Federal agencies/programs,
   across Federal/State/local levels of government

10. opportunities for cooperation with the private sector
    (service providers, computer/telecommunications providers,
    profit and nonprofit)

11. opportunities for telework, telecommuting

Frank Odasz                      \   /    ^     IMAGINATION
Western Montana College, Dillon, - O -   / \  ^  is more
important
MT, 59725 Voice:406-683-7338     /   \ ^/~~~\/~\  than knowledge.
Einstein.
Internet:franko@bigsky.dillon.mt.us  /   \    \  \
fidonet: 1:346/3 Fax 406-683-7493     / \    \  \ -Albert







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Subject: Conference on Individual Differences & Reading Disabilities
From: patt@squid.tram.com (Patt Bromberger)


Forwarded from:
Newsgroups: alt.education.disabled
 from: leigh@unibase.Unibase.SK.CA (Leigh Calnek)
 Organization: Unibase Telecom Ltd.
 Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 02:08:01 GMT


Announcing On-Line Workshop/Seminars on
        INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES AND READING DISABILITY

UNIBASE, an on-line system for educators operating from
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada will be hosting  an On Line
Conference on Individual Differences and Reading Disability.
This on-line conference will focus on the theory and rehabilitation
of reading disability with a major emphasis on neuropsychological
individuality and the Direct Access Reading Technique.

The Conference will be led by Dr. Bob Zenhausern of
St. John's Universtity in New York and Anne Pemberton of Nottoway, VA.
Dr. Zenhausern has developed Direct Access which is emerging as an effective
force in the elimination of reading disability.  Anne Pemberton is a leader
in the Virgina State Educational Network and a teacher of High School
students diagnosed as learning disabled.  The conference will consist of both
asynchronous conference sessions and on-line real-time sessions, both of
which are intended to be highly interactive.  The number of participants
will be limited to 20, with teachers of special education receiving priority
in acceptance.  The conference messages, however, will be posted to other
lists and non-interactive observation will be possible.  Questions from these
observers can be submitted to the conference leaders and incorporated into
future sessions.

If you are interested contact Leigh Calnek the conference coordinator via
email <leigh@unibase.unibase.sk.ca> within the next few days.  Please
indicate an interest in FULL or READ-ONLY participation.  The projected
starting date is the week of November 2, 1992.  Direct
access to the internet will be required in order to
participate in the real-time discussions.  The conference is
expected to run between 4 and 6 weeks depending upon
participant interest.

About Dr. Bob Zenhausern:

 BS    Fordham University, 1960
 MS    Fordham University, 1963
 Ph.D. Fordham University, 1969

Dr. Zenhausern is a Full professor of Psychology at St. Johns
University where he has been teaching since 1963.  His work is in the
area of behavioral neuropsychology and involves two  distinct areas.
One involves the theory, diagnosis, and remediation of learning
disabilities.  There are ongoing projects using the Direct Access
approach to reading in North Carolina and New York City. His second
area of interest is concerned with international computer networking
using Bitnet and the Internet.  Children are given the opportunity to
communicate with children from around the world and the effects on
education are evaluated.

 Recent Publications

 Zenhausern, R. (1987) Instructional strategies and the causes
 of reading disability. Internatinal Journal of Neuroscience.
 34, 55-62.

 Zenhausern, R. (1988) Eyes Right. Teaching K through 8, 23,
 76-78.

 Markman, S. & Zenhausern, R. (1988) The interaction of
 hemispheric related strategies and individual differences in
 learning. International Journal of Neuroscience, 43, 165-170.

 Kaliski, M., Zenhausern, R., Andrews, R. (1990). The direct access
 method of teaching reading and the diagnosis and remediation
 of reading disability.  International Journal of Neuroscience.

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Leigh Calnek
Internet: leigh@unibase.unibase.sk.ca
voice: 306/789-9007






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