[nfb-talk] Medical feeding tube not accessible to a member

[Powers, Terry (NIH/NCI) [E]]

Do you know if this device is run from a regular computer?  If so, a speech package should be able to be added.  
Taking pictures with the KNFB reader on a cell or eye phone is another possibility.  
How about  using a timer and making tactual markers on the screan.   Same idea as marking a micro wave.
With out knowing the complexity of the machine, it is hard to solve the problem.  
Terry Powers


-----Original Message-----
From: Jerad Nylin via nfb-talk [mailto:nfb-talk at nfbnet.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 2:03 PM
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Cc: Jerad Nylin
Subject: [nfb-talk] Medical feeding tube not accessible to a member

Hello, my name is Jerad Nylin and I am the president of the Cedar Rapids Iowa chapter.  We have a member who has a family member in the hospital who is also blind.  The person in the hospital is on a feeding tube at this time, and may need to be on it for a while, however the equipment that distributes the food when needed is not accessible to the blind, as it is touch screen, and has no auditory output to know when requests are input in to the computer to start the feeding.  This is an issue, because the patient may be able to get discharged from the hospital and go home while still on a feeding tube, however there would not be a way for the patient or the family member to read the screen to administer the feeding.  

I asked permission from the member if I could reach out to the listservs to see if other federation members have ever had to deal with this.  Does anyone know if there is a way or a machine that is accessible for the blind to use on their own? The hospital social worker has never had this issue come up, so they don't know how to help, but I beleave they would be open to ideas to help this family out. If you have ideas, please email me at jnylin92 at gmail.com or call me at (319)535-3723

 

Thank you so much

 

Sincerely, 

 

Jerad Nylin

President: Cedar Rapids Chapter, National Federation of the Blind of Iowa

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