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Tips On Typing

Creator: n/a
Date: September 1932
Publication: The Polio Chronicle
Source: Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation Archives


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HINTS FOR PARALS

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The illustration above shows a patient with sub-normal arms and hands using the electric typewriter donated to the National Patients' Committee by the Woodstock Typewriter Company.

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With this electric typewriter it is necessary only to slightly depress the keys after the motor is turned on, the motor furnishing the power for the impression. It is practically the same in operation as the standard typewriter, but enables patients whose hands have been partially paralyzed to type.

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You might say that this typewriter has an organ touch rather than a piano touch. This is a very real advantage to those with a hand disability.

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The sketch shows a spring suspension arranged to help a paral with some triceps (pushing down) power but little or no power to lift the forearm. This is a great help in any kind of table work with an arm disability of this type.

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The spring is most simply made of a rubber strip 3/4 inches wide, cut from an automobile inner tube, with a suitable cuff for the wrist.

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One paral, having only one good arm, has used a string and foot action for operating the shift key on his typewriter.

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