From the Greek skoliosis meaning crookedness of a bodily part. Service Dog - Any guide dog, signal dog, or other animal individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, including but not limited to, guiding individuals with impaired vision, alerting individuals with impaired hearing to intruders or sounds, providing minimal protection or rescue work, pulling a wheelchair, or fetching dropped items. For instance, if a deaf parent wants to stay alert to his baby's cry, a signaling device could either flash a lamp in a room, or several rooms, or vibrate a pager like device to indicate the child is awake and crying. It requires little or no movement. Speech Output - An alternative to a computer screen for users who are blind, visually impaired, dyslexic or other learning disabled.
Computers are capable of producing two types of speech - digitized and synthetic.
Digitized - real speech sounds are recorded and turned into digital information which can then be stored and replayed, in a similar way to audio CDs. Synthetic - speech or sounds are created by the software. A speech synthesizer will turn text into speech by applying the standard rules of pronunciation. It promotes circulation and position changes. Spinal Cord Injury - a spinal cord break at the sixth thoracic vertebrae.