[laptop-accessibility] introduction

[Samuel Klein]

Hello Jennifer,

You may find some interesting projects underway to make the XO more
friendly to those with visual impairment; and accessible in general.

The accessibility common room could use a little sprucing up, but is a
fine place to start:
   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Accessibility_Common_Room

SJ

On Nov 18, 2007 10:00 AM, Jennifer Marden <jmardenslp at comcast.net> wrote:
> Hello!  I was just introduced to the idea of using OLPC as an
> accessible communication device by Adam Bowker at the American
> Speech-Language-Hearing Association convention.  Thought I would join
> the list and introduce my self.  My name is Jennifer Marden.  I'm a
> speech-language pathologist in private practice in Boston,
> Massachusetts.  I specialize in non-speaking children and adults with
> severe physical impairments who use computers or other low tech means
> to communicate.  Before becoming an SLP, I worked as a software
> engineer for 14 years at Hewlett-Packard.  Most of my time with HP was
> spent in in the HP-UX lab (HP's version of Unix), working on file
> systems (local and networked), virtual memory, and process management
> OS internals.  Most work was done in C, with a small amount of assembly
> coding, and a lot of debugging in assembly.  I would be interested in
> helping out with development of communication systems based on the XO
> for non-speaking people with various access needs and
> cognitive/developmental levels.  I'm pretty busy with my practice, so
> I'm not sure how much time I could dedicate, but would love to be
> involved!
>
> Jennifer Marden
> jmardenslp at comcast.net
> www.technicallyspeaking-slp.com
>
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