Re: A Personal Anniversary
- From: "Mary Emerson" <maryemerson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:49:42 -0700
I've shared my optacon story before so if you've seen it you can skip this
post. I got individual training to use the optacon on weekends and during
summer break while in computer school in 1976. I went back for my last third
of computer programmer training and immediately used the optacon to read
homework assignments. My optacon arrived on Friday of Thanksgiving week so I
started using it after returning the loaner to state rehab or whoever owned
it. Rehab bought the one I got, and all my other machines I purchased
myself. Having lived on my own since 1977 I wouldn't be without an optacon.
I don't have sighted help so the optacon is a necessity. I used it 40 hours
a week for 15 years at the office, until I got my first braille display. I
am one of those people who can say the optacon got me my job; I took it to
the interview and was reading all sorts of things to show what it could do.
I'd only had it for a few months so wasn't reading too fast, probably about
40 words a minute; now I read about a hundred words a minute, give or take a
few, depending on the difficulty of the material.
Mary Emerson E-mail: maryemerson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Podcast web site:
http://www.emerson.libsyn.com Podcast feed: emerson.libsyn.com/rss
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