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| Washington, DC, May 9, 2000.
Hon Randy (Duke) Cunningham,
Attn: Tim Charters, Rayburn House Office Building,
Washington, DC 20515.
Dear Rep. Cunningham: UCP, the nations largest health
charity, is pleased to endorse your forthcoming bill to
require the Department of Health and Human Services to issue
a Medicare National Coverage Determination for augmentative
and alternative communication (AAC) devices. Many people with
severe speech disabilities, such as those due to cerebral
palsy, need these devices to communicate, but requests by UCP
and other organizations for Medicare to issue a national
coverage determination have not been heeded.
Medicare has failed to act in spite of the compelling case
for the efficacy of AAC devices, in spite of physicians who
determine these devices are medically necessary for many
Medicare beneficiaries with severe speech disabilities, and
in spite of. |
| The prototype of the handset, weighing less than a kg,
had already been tested succesfully by the Amarnath
yatris among others, he said. The handset, which uses S-
band communication frequency, could be very handy for
truckers as it would enable tracking the exact location
of the vehicles, Kasturirangan said. |
| Wed like to share this good news with you, courtesy of our friends at
Communication Independence for the Neurologically Impaired
(http://www.cini.org) |
| *******Education*******
1980 - 1985
Electro-technical Institute of Communication (Tashkent)
Engineer of Communication Technology (Honor Diploma)
1985
Scientific Center Algorithm (Kazan, Russia)
Universal Computer EC 1045 (IBM 370)
Installation, Service, Trouble shooting
11/1997
Shiller International University (London)
Operations Management, Business English
1996-1998
University of World Economy and Diplomacy (Tashkent)
The International MBA Program, Master of Business Administration
*******Languages*******
Russian (Native), English (fluent verbal and written),
German (Middle level, good background), Uzbek (Basic knowledge) |
| In 1985, I had to have a tracheotomy operation. After this,
I had to have 24 hour nursing care. This was made possible by
grants from several foundations. Before the operation, my
speech had been getting more slurred, so that only a few
people who knew me well could understand me. But at least I
could communicate. I wrote scientific papers by dictating to
a secretary, and I gave seminars through an
However, a computer expert in California, called Walt
Woltosz, heard of my plight. He sent me a computer program he
had written, called Equalizer. This allowed me to select
words from a series of menus on the screen, by pressing a
switch in my hand. The program could also be controlled by a
switch, operated by head or eye movement. When I have built
up what I want to say, I can send it to a speech synthesizer.
At first, I just ran the Equalizer program on a desk top
computer.
However David Maso. |
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