Joined on 12-02-2006
TechSoup Member
I have recently been made aware of two brothers in their early 40s. Both have muscular dystrophy, are completely paralyzed, use their tongues to control a sort of cursor.
And they’ve been to Second Life. Someone (Stonebruise Goodfellow) brought them to SL with the help of a net-savvy healthcare aide. Once there, the brothers flew. They rode a horse.
As a consumer health librarian, I share Stonebruise's goal of helping her friends to enjoy a Second Life where these things can happen every day, and to help others do the same. See, they can ride and fly - but if someone says hello, they cannot respond.
I want to help. I hope we all do. I will be working with Stonebruise to assemble a resource listing - and hope so much to do more. Surely programs like Dragonwrite can be imported to SL. Surely, there are other programs that can be used to ensure accessibility to our friends whose RL, corporeal selves are bound (as are we all).
If you are interested in helping, please contact me at SL.
Carolina Keats
Joined on 03-24-2005
TechSoup Member
The person to chat with is Pathfinder Linden. He's doing lots of work with various communities of people with disabilities and diseases in SL.