by Debbie Waite, Oxford Mail
Six-year-old Tamsin England, from Faringdon was born with cerebral palsy, which limits her speech and movement in her limbs, so even pointing to something is difficult. Mrs England said: “Tamsin and I were playing with a toy that had a switch and I accidentally let go of it. “It fell between Tamsin’s knees and she started to squeeze it to press the switch. We just hadn’t thought using her legs to operate a computer but it works. Now she has a voice computer she controls by squeezing her knees.” When the Princess Royal visited the Ace Centre last December, Tamsin was there to greet her with a posy and a message she had prepared with her computer. She told the Princess she liked reading and asked if she liked books too. Thanks to the technology – and her own and her parents’ determination – Tamsin attends a mainstream school – Stockham, in Wantage – where teaching assistants adapt lessons for her computer.
http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/8252633.Charity_dedicated_to_giving_children_a_voice/
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