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excerpt from the 1976 Cerebral Palsy National Telethon
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This excerpt was edited and compressed
by Roger E. Kaufman from the full broadcast production shown on
American Broadcasting Company television stations around the country
as part of the Jerry Lewis Telethon.
This clip was taken from the 1976 Cerebral Palsy National
Telethon. At the time I was the duPont Assistant Professor of
Mechanical Engineering at M.I.T. Among other things it shows me
(with hair, no less) and my student, Diane Chambers working with
a device she built under my direction called "Magic Mice".
It also shows some of the other therapy devices designed and built
by my other students.
The photos below show Diane demonstrating her eye-hand
coordination training device, "Magic Mice", along with
an "under the hood" view
Here you see me with another of my old undergraduate
students, Dennis Burke, working on some devices Dennis built for
teaching spelling and eye-hand coordination.
This shows one of the patients working with Dennis
and me using Dennis' alphabet trainer. The blocks each are coded
so they must be properly oriented and placed to get the reward:
These are some patients working with devices built
by some of my freshman students.
Here is a challenging dynamic eye-hand trainer
built by a senior that enhances forground/background discrimination
and motion planning.
This is a student trying out an electronic eye-hand
coordination training game I personally designed and built.
Here you see me with another of my old undergraduate
students, Dennis Burke, working with one of the patients at Kennedy
Memorial Hospital. The photo shows a device that I built for training
eye-hand coordination.
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