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£9,464.28
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Touch screen PC -£475.00
Speechpro software -£485.87
Assistance with wet-room construction -£8,029.40
-£8,990.27
Balance £474.01
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The Funds First Assistance - A Talking Computer


Here are some videos of Dave using the first thing the fund has bought to help him.  With the disease, speech is one of the first things affected and Dave is now at the stage where normal conversation is completely restricted and communication can be extremely frustrating.

The touch-screen PC means he can more easily input information as opposed to using a small keyboard.  we bought some advanced software from America (called speechpro) and he loaded it onto the PC.  This allows him to input sentences into the PC and have them "spoken" through its speakers.  The software comes with some more realistically human voices than the type people associate with Steven Hawkins.

At the moment its taking him a time to get used to using the software system as it uses boxes with words as well as a regular keyboard layout so commonly used words don't need the be spelt out in full.

The secnd video is Dave using the PC to tell us he will be cured tomorrow!

The last one has his daughter stealing his comfort blanket for herself!

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