We work with children and teenagers with profound disabilities, people who cannot
speak and have little or no voluntary motion. Often they were born with cerebral
palsy or they have suffered traumatic brain injury from an automobile accident
or accidental drowning.
By luck and circumstance, the first person to have her own Camera Mouse system was Jordan – a 33-month old girl with severe cerebral palsy. Jordan can't talk but she can move her chin up and down a little and her head from side to side a little. Here is Jordan in her wheelchair trying a system in our lab. Her mom is next to her. The camera is black and below the monitor.