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By Julie Mitchell
Reporter
A volunteer program at Hu-
ana Hospital can help occupy
ored students this summer.
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Democratic! Valley will begin organizing its
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Summer in an organizational
eeting Thursday at 7 p.m. in
t Humana Hospital Class-
om.
The program is an eight-week
orogram open to all A&M stu
lents. At the end of the eight
eeks the program will be reor
ganized and new volunteers will
)e admitted. Students who volun
teer may continuously work in
the program.
Volunteers may schedule their
ours within the week between
he hours of 7 a.m. and midnight,
here is no minimum or maxi-
um number of hours that vol-
nteers must work.
Marsha Herring, volunteer di-
ector for Humana, said she en-
Fndays, 5::i|f oura g es students from all majors
Read. ForimsHo volunteer. Humana has volun-
e at 696-6i;i^|eer positions available in many of
ts departments including: emer-
ency, pharmacy, business, nurs-
ng, laboratory, physical therapy
nd public relations.
Students interested in being
ggie Volunteers should attend
he organizational meeting for
Applications, orientation and a
escription of the departments
ndjob responsibilities.
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Grants help A&M students
design equipment for MHMR
Photo by Michelle M. Touchet
Scott Probasco, a senior bioengineering major, works on an ‘adult
entertainment box’ for MHMR clients in Texas.
By Sarah Cowan
Reporter
Some bioengineering students at
Texas A&M are changing the lives
of many handicapped Mental
Health and Mental Retardation cli
ents in Texas with their work.
A year ago the state MHMR gave
a $100,000 grant to the A&M bi
oengineering department to design
and modify therapeutic equipment
for the facilities in Richmond, as well
as those in Houston and surround
ing areas.
The National Science Foundation
recently announced that the pro
ram will receive an additional
75,000 over the next five years.
“Having the state contract helped
us get the NSF contract and, of
course, having the NSF contract
helps the state because we now have
more money to spend on this activity
than the state itself provided,” said
Dr. William Hyman, an A&M bi
oengineering professor.
Some of the devices students de
sign are new and some are simple
modifications.
For example, one verbally hand
icapped girl depends on a speech
emulator which has labeled buttons
that she pushes to communicate.
However, the emulator was installed
on her wheelchair lapboard which
lies flat, preventing her from seeing
and reaching the buttons. Students
modified the lapboard so it will
move up and down and tilt to meet
her needs.
“What this program is all about is .
. . people have simple needs and
these students can see that they can
build something that means some
thing to this person’s life, and that is
an opportunity that we don’t often
get,” Hyman said.
Another device that was rede
signed to better meet the needs of
clients was a set of horizontal bars,
resembling parallel bars, used to
help handicapped children walk.
The bars were too much of an aid in
this case because clients could always
maintain contact with the bars.
The solution was to use two rows
of vertical bars so clients have to let
go as they walk which, as it turns out,
is more like normal walking.
Scot Probasco, a senior bioengi
neering major from Arlington, said,
“This is an interesting opportunity
and ... it is the first time I’ve put to
use anything for a useful purpose.”
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