one of the wonderful aspects of being a speech language pathologist is... being able to give a person, who is hooked to a ventilator that breathes for him or her, a way to communicate with those who love him or her...
a little piece of plastic that has a one-way valve that opens with the ventilator breath, then closes with the ventilator exhalation cycle so that the air travels up through the vocal cords as voice and out through the mouth as speaking...
or a larger piece of plastic that is a computer that talks for the person... with words and pictures that may be selected by an infra-red head pointer the size of a small dot and placed between the eyebrows... or may be selected by the wisp of a touch by the thumb or the movement of the eyebrow itself...
both methods may be used in conjunction with each other for the benefit of the person with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or lou gehrig's disease...
sometimes, i love being a speechie...
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