4MyChild: Help and Hope for Life

November 19, 2006

Teen Finally Finds a Voice After 18 Years

This story struck me as a bit sad, a young woman, 18 years old and living with cerebral palsy gets a communication assist device, a touchscreen-device programmed with recorded words and sentences. She uses it for the first time at 18 years old, and asks for something to eat.

Full article can be read here: http://www.sltrib.com/ci_4668727

Of course it is wonderful that she is finally able to express herself and be able to express such basic human desires as hunger, but it struck me as sad that she spent the first 18 years of her life frustrated and unable to communicate.
The wonder of the digital age never cease to amaze me. Even twenty years ago this kind of assisted communication would not be possible. Read more inspirational stories about cerebral palsy.