You ready? Hi. You ready? Hi, my name is Robert Rommel Hudson. I'm the author of Skylar's Monster. I also keep a blog called Fighting Monsters with Robert Swords. And this is my associate. My name is Skylar. This is Skylar. I'm really excited to be doing participating in this panel at South Myself West. For us, technology has made a huge impact on Skylar's development. Skylar has a rare brain-fept malformation called polymicrogyria. There's a bunch of different effects, but one of those effects is herpability to talk. Skylar doesn't talk like everyone else. So for the past five or six years, Skylar has been using alternative, communication devices or AAC to communicate. She started off using a very, very simple device that strapped around her waist and gave very simple answers. She graduated up to the device that she uses now. She's been using for a number of years. The advantage and then later the advantage light by the Appranky Romance Company. This is her advantage light. What do you call your advantage light? This is my speech device. I call it Pincasa. It helps me speak. This is Pincasa. Skylar loves Pincasa because Pincasa has not just given her the ability to communicate, which is a big deal. You like being able to communicate, don't you? You know, you like to communicate? Talk. That's right. But it's also talked a lot about the structure of language and how the language works. The most exciting development for Skylar is now she is beginning to kind of graduate up to the next step. Using the iPad, using iPod Touch, and not just using it for speech output, but using it also to send text messages to sort of interface with a larger world. It's very exciting time. I think we're going to see a lot of development with Apps. She uses her iPad not just for speech output, but for just a million other things as well, including learning sign language. There's an application that shows her how to sign. It doesn't have dirty words. I guess she can learn those somewhere else. So Skylar uses a sign language. She uses her verbal speech. She uses the iPod Touch, which she loves. And she uses the speech output. She uses her communication toolbox is pretty full. And technology has really made the difference for Skylar. And it's going to continue to make the difference for Skylar. She's going to continue to use things like the iPad and the iPod. And dedicated speech devices probably as well to some degree. So it's an exciting time. We are really looking forward to hearing about other uses of technology and how that's helping people in the disability community. So that's why I'm very excited about this project. This video project, I hope we get a lot of submissions. And why I'm so excited about our panel at South by Southwest in Austin, in March. And I hope that if you're going to be in the area, which seems like everybody is, I hope that you will come and listen to us because it's going to be me and two smart people. And then a lot of smart people in the audience. So thank you so much and really looking forward to seeing you. Goodbye. Bye, I have fun. Bye, I have fun.