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Switch-adapted mouse

A single switch can be used to speak and make phone calls through a communication aid, control a PC, TV, DVD, music system, drive a powered wheelchair, open doors, operate IR toys, kitchen equipment....

There are pillow switches, sip and puff, eye blink, and muscle-move activated switches.

 Wheechair-mounted Head-switch

selection of 'mouse move and select' switches, activated by pressure, blinking, muscle movement, sipping and puffing - and there are many more types of switch

A reflective dot can be worn on the forehead for a webcam to read head movement. With an eye-gaze system whatever the user gazes at, selects. Teddy (right) is wearing a laser pointer. There's a switch to suit every need.

New: 1 Voice children show their switching and scanning skills.

Lightpointer headband - shines a lazer light onscreen to activate hotspots
Hotspots interface from Ace-Centre Oxford - customisable overlays for CDs, Internet pages, computer applications - activated by whatever your input method isfor

Some fun things to do with your switch and communication aid.

Who can do it? Essential skills? See Marion Stanton's Small Steps Approach to the Mainstream Curriculum, Janet Scott's Teddies with Badges, Tony Jones' & Martyn Maltby's Switching to Communication and more.

 Head mouse - a webcam like device detects head movements and converts them into mouse-moves, dwells into clicks. the user wears a reflective dot on the forehead