Quadriplegic Woman Can Now Read the Bible
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Rod Peterson, Rural Rehabilitation Specialist,
Nebraska AgrAbility and
Easter Seals volunteer
discovered SPCS at the Hastings YWCA Community Computer Donation Event.
He asked if we would be willing to help him with a project where a quadriplegic woman,
the wife of a Nebraska farmer, needed a computer to be able to do bible research. He
picked up a computer in October, and arranged with
the publisher of Dragon Dictate
to donate an earlier version of their product which would run on a Pentium III SPCS had
available. He was concerned that even with a 17" monitor she might have trouble seeing the
screen, since she was limited as to how close she could get to the screen, so we used the
Accessabilities features of Windows 2000 to set the icons as large as possible, and we put
a shortcut to the magnifier and onsrceen keyboard on the desktop, just in case she needed
them.
Rod reports they have a ways to go for the quadriplegic lady to master the Dragon Dictate
program but they are making progress. He is researching getting her internet
access paid for, and once she can handle Dragon Dictate the software on the computer should
allow her to do all of the Bible research she wants.
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We included all of the Bible programs from our
Bible image, but because we had set the icons on the desktop so large we just left icons
for FreeBible (KJV), MBible (NIV), Theopolis, and Gospel Parallels on the desktop. Three of
those programs have a number of very useful research tools (Easton's Bible dictionary entry and Strong's Greek or Hebrew definition for any word in the Bible by double clicking
on that word, Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary, Torrey's Topical Textbook, Nave's Topical
Bible, Maps of Paul's Journeys, narrated passages for Genesis 1:1 through Genesis 2:3, with a CD
available for more narrated passages, clicking on a verse in one of the Gospels, and seeing the
same story in the other three Gospels, etc). In fact Don Singleton from
HelpingTulsa reported that they had donated a Bible
computer to a local minister, and a year later he came back and said the hard drive on the
donated computer had crashed. Several members of his church offerred him their old computers,
but they did not have the "Bible Software" on them, and he had been using it to do research
as he worked for his doctrate degree, so could HelpingTulsa possibly give him a new hard
drive with the Bible Software on it? Of course they did.