Full time AAC user
I use an AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) device to help me communicate with family, friends, and handle my work tasks.
Board member
It is a great privilege to be part of such an incredible nonprofit organization (CommunicationFIRST ) and continue to their noble mission
Contributing on the future
For over five years, I have been an instrumental member of a clinical trial team at the University of California, San Francisco. The clinical trial aims to help paralyzed people control a robotic arm and give voices to people who lost the ability to speak or have never spoken before.
Webinars I participated in!
This webinar was hosted by UCSF, doctor, Clarissa Kripkey, invited us. By us, I meant, David Moses, Margaret Seaton, and me, last year on March 2023. I think it was ok, but I could’ve done a better job writing the script. The script can be accessed here.
This webinar was aired on October 2022, hosted by the organization, communicationFirst, I’m a member of. It was in English and translated in Spanish; unfortunately, only the English version was saved. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did! You can find the script in this Google document.
Robot Arm
After almost three years of training with the dot and exoskeleton, we started training with a robotic arm in a virtual environment for some time. Then, we transitioned to the real thing I always wanted: a real robot arm. That was the main reason I entered the clinical...
Exoskeleton
I’ve been a little too busy doing other things, and I haven’t updated my website for several months now; that’s terrible! I will start by introducing my robotic arm, well, not mine. The thing I work with is in the office with the clinical trial team. It’s pretty...
Empowering Journeys: Milestones, Celebrations, Challenges
It was the year 2021, and new and exciting things unfolded since then. Both Speech Decoding and Robotics teams exhibited exceptional and highly successful work. July emerged as a pivotal month, as the speech researchers geared up to unveil their findings in a...
My first power wheelchair | Part 2
On the first day, I was officially approved to go out on my own. I remember I went to the Farmers Market. There’s a little farmer’s market in downtown Sonoma, every Tuesday afternoon, from May to September. So I went over there to have a nice and fun time, and for me,...