hEDS and 6th form

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TartanTeapot

Hi @Andy_Assistive and @Ryan_Assistive


I have hEDS (amongst other things) which basically manifests as sore joints from activity. My 17 yr old has come down with the same thing and they are really suffering in school.  They can't write, type for any length of time, hold a book open to read it or hold a camera or telephone to take photos (currently about to start Y13/ second year of 6th form. A levels in English, Media and Photography, we thought photography would be less writing but think that has backfired a bit).

The school is ready to help but not really sure how to.  

30 years ago I got very cross with Dragon Dictate and haven't used it since.  

Please could you help in terms of-

is there a way to "drive" the computer verbally (there must be) which works across word and adobe/ photographic software??

I found voice recognition software really hard, presumably it has improved? What would you recommend? 

We have a couple of gadgets to take the weight of a camera but the 17yrold can't even manage to pick up the phone to fit into the kit...

Any/ all advice welcomed with gratitude.

Thank you

Tori_Scope

Hi @TartanTeapot This isn't something I know much about personally but I've heard that Dragon has improved, so perhaps it's an option you could look into now that some time has passed? Your child may find this software easier to use than you did.

There also some in-built Windows settings that will let you do basic things through Cortana. You can read about Windows 10 voice controls here (Laptop Mag).

PC World also have an article on different speech recognition programmes, which could be of help? 

I found this YouTube video by Adobe from back in 2017. Perhaps you could chase this up to see if they've released anything? 

If we come across anything else, I'll let you know.