New Opportunities for the Disabled

Archive Report

Climate for Change

Evidence of General Attitudinal Shift

In Los Angeles, at the University of California's Neuropsychiatric Institute, parents and their preschool deaf children learn to communicate through sign language and lip reading. In Westmont, Pa., a quadriplegic uses a computerized system activated by his breath to make telephone calls, tune in a television and turn on the lights in his house. At the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., blind attorneys use specially adapted “talking” computer terminals to obtain complete access to legal data banks. In Boston, a paralyzed man uses a sip-and-puff air tube to control the movement of his motorized wheelchair.1 At Pittsburgh's Rehabilitation Institute paralyzed patients “speak” by staring into a computerized electronic grid hooked to a video camera that translates ...

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