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Speech returned to victim of disease
Computer overcomes handicap
United Press International
BALTIMORE — About six
months ago, Bruce Baird s older
brother, the victim of a debilitat
ing disease, was speechless and
almost completely paralyzed.
“The situation got very grim.
James went through a period of
total rage and anguish.”
James T. Baird was stricken
witb amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,
commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s
disease. After his larynx became
paralyzed and he could not talk,
he was able to form words that
family and friends could lip read.
“But finally, he couldn’t even
do that,” his brother recalled.
So Bruce, with help from two
friends, developed a computer
that allows his brother to com
municate messages that range
from “Hi, how are you?” to re
quests for grape juice for lunch.
Baird’s invention is one of more
than 900 computer-based inven
tions from across the nation en
tered in the Johns Hopkins Ap
plied Physics Laboratory’s first na
tional search for applications of
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Personal Computing to Aid the
Handicapped.
Ten from each region will be
selected for regional awards in the
Johns Hopkins search, said Paul
L. Hazan, director of the program
at the laboratory near Columbia,
Md. Thirty 30 national semi
finalists who will be invited to ex
hibit their creations at the Nation
al Academy of Science in
Washington this fall.
Ten national award winners will
be selected. Prizes of $10,000 for
first place, $3,000 for second and
$1,500 for third will be awarded
Nov. 2.
Hazan said inventions submit
ted have addressed an “amazing
range” of concepts to aid the
blind, deaf, mentally retarded and
individuals with neurological and
muscular conditions.
David Ross, a 33-year-old gra
duate student at Georgia Tech,
devised a “singing” computer to
help the blind.
Ross explained a programmed
card is added to an existing at-
home terminal and when com
monly used word pairs are typed,
musical tones are played. The
word pair “this is ”, for example,
matches the first six notes of Scott
Joplin’s “Entertainer.”
“It’s pretty easy to hear when
they make a mistake. The person
can hear what they type and cor
rect a ‘sour note,’ ” Ross said.
Paul Kiepe, a 72-year-old in
ventor in Payette, Idaho, came up
with another musical aid. A music
al score fits onto a special printed
circuit board with notes about
fingertip size. The circuit board is
connected to a small electric organ
and the song is played when some
one touches the notes.
Kiepe’s innovation is primarily
aimed for use with mentally re
tarded children. He built six of his
musical machines and put on a
Christmas concert in Boise.
“It’s a beautiful sight to see a
retarded child play music. It is
very touching,” he said.
Bruce Baird enlisted the help of
Craig Linebaugh, a professor from
George Washington University’s
department of audiology and
speech pathology, and Cip
Richard Armour, an Air h
computer scientist, to
computer aid for his il
A television screen sits at 4
foot of James’ bed in his Rods:
home. 11e can generateinessas
ask visitors questions and malt
quests — all by twitching hisirr.
cles, Bruce said.
"The sensitivity of this thiad
incredible. I tried it myselfij
other day and the threshold
low I wasn’t even aware 1 u
moved,” he said.
A typewriter keyboard is pi
jected on the screen and acuie
a small ray of light, hops fromt
to key. If James wants tocalli
hold file containing chit-chat,
stops the cursor at “C,” Brut*
plained.
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“He can send a mes
answer a question, he can
it anyway he wants to,”
said. “The other day hew
grape juice for lunch, so he
ped the cursor at “F” forfoodt
typed in grape juice.”
Wife writes novels,
husband sells them
United Press International
ARLINGTON — To be able to
walk away from a successful career
in television in search of a name in
the elusive world of publishing
takes a great deal of courage.
Sandra Brown found the inspir
ation for that courage in her hus
band of 13 years.
Michael Brown, until recently
a news anchor at a Dallas televi
sion station and the host of a popu
lar talk show, began noticing his
wife’s talent for writing while the
two worked at the station.
The two decided they should
set up their own enterprise, with
the wife doing the writing and the
husband the promotional work.
In the past year that the couple
has been working in support of
each other, Mrs. Brown has sold
seven romantic novels to New
York publishing centers, an incre
dible accomplishment for an un
known, unpublished author.
Mrs. Brown hit publishing pay
dirt in August with publication of
her first romantic novel, “Love’s
Encore,” by Dell Publishing Co.
which has entered the highly luc
rative world of romance-writing
where sales have been running in
excess of 300 million copies
annually.
Awaiting release on the heels of
“Love’s Encore” are her other
works entitled “Love Beyond
Reason,” “Eloquent Silence,” and
“Bittersweet Rain.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Brown con
tinues with her schedule of a
novel-a-month and her husband is
busy lining up television and
media interviews, managing a
household dominated by two
young children, his own guest
speaker engagements and taping
television commercials.
Mrs. Brown writes under the
pen name of Rachel Ryan, a com
bination of the first names of her
two children. The children ex
tracted a price to let their mother
use their names.
“I told them if they let me write
for a few hours every morning
without bothering me then I
would put their names on every
page of the book,”, Mrs. Brpwn
said.
Giving much of the credit for
her success to her husband, Mrs.
Brown said: “As a television talk
show host, Michael has inter
viewed several authors and it was
his firm conviction that I could
write novels. Like any journalist, I
have always wanted to be a writer
but had never done anything ab
out it. He convinced me that I
could.”
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redients that followers ofi
novels thirst for. The storyis
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