Session 1 What is the eye control learning curve?

Hector MintoSales Manager UK, AT

Primarily an eye tracking company The communication access method for the most disabled

people An expensive but worthwhile technology for a small

number of users The quickest access method not an AAC company – hardware specialists – “just an

eyegaze company”

Ten years of eye control

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Tobii Analysis overtaken by Tobii Assistive in numbers of system users

A growing number of users using eye control for many different applications

A cost similar to that of a Lightwriter ten years ago The quickest and easiest to learn access method One of the top three AAC companies worldwide – probably

number one in the UK

The reality

www.tobii.com

The largest AAC reseller network in the world

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No statutory funding for AAC despite encouraging signals from the government

Children getting more systems than adults Adult SLT and OT awareness of eye control solutions

seriously lacking – mainly due to no funding Computer access not considered in the well funded

environmental control mix Cuts cuts cuts

The UK backdrop

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The new Tobii UK map

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www.tobii.ATI.com

Coverage

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The learning curve

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The learning curve

Summary

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Sensory

Exploration

Choosing

Turn Taking

Communication

Until today, the assessment visit has been key Perform on the day or try something else We can now move to a model of training and skills building Our reseller model can help you implement this no matter

what your position on the “curve”

Eye control implementation

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Decreasing cost of eye control – why this is now possible!

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The agenda for today

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Sensory Guru

Inclusive Tech – mainstream software fun

Tobii Communicator – a vocab curve

Functional Communication - Smartbox

Lifestyling – RSL Steeper

And now the science.....

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