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(OR CALL 713-224-5897). United Press International WEST LAFAYETT, Ind.— Christopher Lee writes by clicking his tongue. The clicks activate a six-inch elec tronic device to turn on his tape recorder. The box was developed for him by Purdue engineers with a grant from the Indiana Rehabilita tion Services. Lee, a freshman and creative writing major at Purdue University, is a quadruplegic as a result of cere bral palsy. The voice-operated computer sys tem was designed by Prof. Vernon Newhouse to allow the physically handicapped to operate any type of electronic system or machinery with a click of the tongue. Newhouse, who started the clini cal engineering program at Purdue five years ago, says if the device works well, he will make the circuit and building instructions available free to anyone who has use for them. “The device has about as much electronic equipment in it as a black-and-white TV,” the professor said. It is essentially a sophisticated computer system that can recognize up to five different instructions. Unitl he got the box, Lee had written short stories, plays and poetiy by dictating to his mother, Mrs. Muriel Lee, a speech teacher at Indiana University-Pnrdue Uni versity at Indianapolis. “We’ve been trying to find an an swer to dictating term papers j | other writing,” said Mrs. Lee, In we couldn’t find anything dj could control consistently." She recalled one particularlyJj appointing trip they madetofo Jersey to test what was promoled a “speech synthesizer.” Mrs. L«| said it didn’t work as advertised * Newhouse said the parts fori device cost about $200. Lee recorder cost an additional Newhouse’s assistants inbi the box were students. TIPTT0P ^ To Lee, the device is fantast Newhouse also predicts broader, plication of engineering to reU tation in the future. With don* time, he himself already has4 veloped a correctional device children called a head-posi; trainer. 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