matterhacker

This story from ABC appeared on the Digg front page today.  It’s about an autistic woman who has proven that autistic persons can communicate quite readily and intelligently.  All that she needed was a method of communication that she could work with.  In this case her parents got together with a psychologist to design a keyboard with pictures and symbols that allowed her to type out what she wanted to say.  Great read!  It reminds me of silentmiaow, her blog and youtube entries.  She too has severe autism and has found typing to be the only way to effectively communicate with non-autistic people.  Amazing to hear the thoughts, emotions and opinions of people with autism.  People that society thought of as unintelligent in the past.

Cool… improving memory via electrode stimulation. A pacemaker for the memory center for the brain.