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Imogen May urgently needs a communication aid - can you help?

posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 11:05am on 27/09/2009
A few days ago I spent a very clammy and revolting hour or so with my hands in a bowl of alphabetti spaghetti, trying to make a sentence. It's something I dreamed of doing as a kid, but the reality was pretty cold and disgusting, and very, very slow! I'm glad I don't have to compose all my words that way. When Imogen May lost her speech, the NHS gave her a laminated card with the alphabet on, to spell out words with. It is a little quicker than spaghetti, but just as useless for telephone calls. The picture below links to her web page, where she is raising funds to buy a cool and useful communication aid.

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posted by [identity profile] 1ngi.livejournal.com at 12:19pm on 27/09/2009
Your spaghetti is a brilliant way of illustrating this - and made me click through. Now wondering how I can do more as well as donate.
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posted by [identity profile] watervole.livejournal.com at 12:23pm on 27/09/2009
To be fair to the NHS, they did manage to find her a speech device better than the initial alphabet card, it just wasn't easy to use with dyslexia.

(I've already made a donation, as I know what it's like to be unable to speak.)
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posted by [identity profile] techiebabe.livejournal.com at 02:27pm on 27/09/2009
What Imogen's site doesn't tell you is that the other (NHS) aid broke after just a few days of using it. I wonder why it was in the cupboard in the first place! Not sure if it's been fixed. :-(
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posted by [identity profile] cuddles-batcave.livejournal.com at 05:38pm on 27/09/2009
Thanks for posting this.

A classic example of how a disability can isolate people and limit their abilities. Also illustrates how small minded service providers can be on resolving the difficulties faced by people every day.

Communication is vital and speech is essential for many aspects of daily living. We can all relate on what it could be like if we couldn't talk/see/hear etc but the reality is much more harrowing.

Eggs UK will be happy to help Imogen - I just have to remember where the cheque book is - and hope that Imogen achieves her goal quickly.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 06:17pm on 27/09/2009
Oh cool, thank you!
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