Assistive Technology

Lately, I've been thinking about a past co-worker. My co-worker was very up-to-date on all the latest technology. I think he may be one of the first people around who was on the internet! I remember us having a conversation about about this one day, he was trying to encourage me to "surf the net", how easy it was and so on. And this was only about 14 years ago, I'm not sure if we even had a computer in our home. Besides my co-worker's knowledge of the net at the time, we was legally blind, but that didn't hinder him any way! He was successful in gaining funding to purchase a talking computer which assisted him in his many tasks. I'm sure this made his internet surfing much easier. Not only did he use his computer for surfing, he did everything on it, and it certainly asissted him with his writing. He truly was ahead of his time and he is a fine example of how assistive technology can be really beneficial.