Here are a couple of photos taken today of Wendy in her new wheelchair. She is still learning how to use it, but is making excellent progress. One of its advantages is that she can control the amount of tilt to give herself the most comfortable position to recline. Once she becomes proficient driving it, the controls can be adjusted so she can move about while in this reclining position, but for now as a learner driver for safety reasons, she has to be upright, or very nearly upright before the chair can move.
In the background of these photos you can see her speech synthesizer's touch screen, set here on symbols. Her keyboards, either alphabetical order or QWERTY keyboard, are on the nest screens - very large letters, too large for touch typing, which is a good thing because her weakened fingers are too 'clumsy' as she puts it, to be able to touch type now.
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