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Self-built aids, open designs
Software and hardware we design and build ourselves for augmentative and alternative communication. Every aid starts from a single question: which movement does this person actually control?
The solutions we suggest most often to people approaching AAC for the first time.
Environmental control unit with scanning
Lights, sockets, television and a call for assistance, all operated with the same switch used to communicate.
System-wide on-screen scanning keyboard
Write in any program with one or two switches: email, browser, documents, chat.
Eye pointing with low-cost hardware
An infrared bar and eye-tracking software: the pointer follows the gaze, selection happens by dwell or with a switch.
Symbol communicator with customisable boards
Symbol grids with speech synthesis, built-in scanning and an editor designed for families, not for technicians.
Pressure switch with adjustable activation force
The starting switch for almost every path: wide surface, perceptible click, force adjustable from 40 to 250 grams.
Personal voice bank and synthesis in your own voice
Records and keeps a person's voice while it is still available, so it can be used in the communicator when it no longer is.
From the sensor that detects the movement to the program that turns it into words.
No aid works if it is chosen from a distance, out of a catalogue. The catalogue is there to give you an idea: the choice is made together.
We look at which movements are voluntary, repeatable and not tiring. This step determines everything else.
We bring two or three solutions home or to school and try them in the real setting, not in a clinic.
We adjust sensors, mounts and software to the person. That is exactly why the designs are open.
Conditions change. We review the solution regularly and update it together with the person using it.
Personal voice bank and synthesis in your own voice
Records and keeps a person's voice while it is still available, so it can be used in the communicator when it no longer is.
Playing music with others using a single switch
The switch advances the melody in time: you can get the note wrong, never the harmony, and you really do play in a group.
Myoelectric sensor for minimal muscle contractions
Detects the contraction of a single muscle — eyebrow, cheek, forearm — even when the movement is not visible.
Tell us about the situation: which movements are possible, in what setting, with what goal. We reply with a concrete proposal, no obligation.
