Cell Phones in Great Britain - Mobile phone for a user with a disability

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Mobile phone for a user with a disability

Peter Maddern

2007-09-22, 12:33 pm

A disabled person is looking for help with making and receiving taking phone
calls. He can't use his hands and therefore can't dial out or click the
"accept call" or "end call" button. Also, because he can't use his hands, he
can't put on and take off a headset or earpiece. He can use a foot control
of some sort.

Is there a mobile designed for disabled users who can't operate the phone at
all by hand which:-

Allows a user to accept a call and terminate a call by voice?
Can dial out a number by voice
Has a built in speaker which can be turned on by voice or can be set to be
turned on permanently?

If there's no such phone on the market, what some sort of voice command
programme running on a Pocket PC under Windows Mobile?

Thanks

Peter

john lyon

2007-09-22, 10:33 pm

"Peter Maddern" <pmadalternate-address@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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>A person is looking for help with making and receiving taking phone calls.
>He can't use his hands

He should contact his local hospital, doctors surgery or health authority as
they have lists of various support groups. No doubt he will have a complete
list. There are various groups that help people out and will assess their
needs and suggest products to make life easier. You could find the details
of the groups for him and they can see him directly to advise him what is
available.
It's best to do it that way, then you will not find the need to become
involved so much - leave it to people that have done it all before and have
the knowledge and resources. What you think he needs is probably not what
he wants, there might be a number of products he can try out on loan first.
The final decision on what suits him is down to him. It might not be
something complex that is always best. Equipment is available to people
with genuine disabilities like your friend through a number of groups.

Martyn H

2007-09-24, 10:33 am

On Sep 22, 6:07 pm, "Peter Maddern" <pmadalternate-
addr...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> A disabled person is looking for help with making and receiving taking phone
> calls. He can't use his hands and therefore can't dial out or click the
> "accept call" or "end call" button. Also, because he can't use his hands, he
> can't put on and take off a headset or earpiece. He can use a foot control
> of some sort.
>
> Is there a mobile designed for disabled users who can't operate the phone at
> all by hand which:-
>
> Allows a user to accept a call and terminate a call by voice?
> Can dial out a number by voice
> Has a built in speaker which can be turned on by voice or can be set to be
> turned on permanently?
>
> If there's no such phone on the market, what some sort of voice command
> programme running on a Pocket PC under Windows Mobile?
>
> Thanks
>
> Peter

sounds like an interesting project for a electronic enginerring or
medical engineering student to put together an interface for this
person, given the level of disability described by the Op it's
probable the person with the disability is a wheel chair user and more
than likely a powerchair user ... it's almost into the realms of
custom carkit on the chair time with the remote interfaces that
usually integrate the carkit into the car integrated into the control
system of the chair

as the other poster who replied said local rehabilitation medicine /
wheelchair services bods probably know who is best to get intouch
with

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