<div><br></div><div dir="auto">Katherine et al ATHENites</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">There are some pretty useful alternatives for the Dasher app. Check out this link for more info:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div><a href="https://alternativeto.net/software/dasher/">https://alternativeto.net/software/dasher/</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div>Wink Harner <br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 1:47 PM Katherine Deibel <<a href="mailto:kndeibel@metageekery.org">kndeibel@metageekery.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network <<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>><br>
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the Ginger suite, several google extensions (like Grammarly which actually does sentence prediction), Read and Write for Google, and others. It will depend on which features they are looking for. It might be worthwhile to try Read and Write for Google (<a href="https://www.texthelp.com/products/read-and-write-education/" target="_blank">https://www.texthelp.com/products/read-and-write-education/</a>)
to see how the combination of tools benefits her (speech input, word prediction etc). There is a free 30 day trial on the extension. She might also find the text-to-speech and highlighting tools useful. I would also look at some different trackballs/mice
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 28, 2022 3:46 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network <<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>><br>
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<p>I’m working with a student who has damage to their brain stem as a result of cancer and treatment.<u></u><u></u></p>
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