The International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication met in Toronto on 8-11 August, 2016. Abstracts are available here. My collaborators and I made three presentations. Through these, we got feedback for our projects and, gratifyingly, made contact with like-minded…

For the last 3+ years I have been making custom switches for AAC users at Bruyère Continuing Care’s Saint-Vincent Hospital. The impetus came from the fact that sometimes commercial switches do not suit our users’ needs. That is understandable as…

This DIY blink detector can be made in less than 10 minutes for under $10. A borescope is mounted on a goggle to the side of one eye. Software interprets the camera’s video image to identify two (maybe three) eye…