Engineering students in California have spent the last three months trying to create a new way for a mute, paralyzed Naugatuck man to communicate. Since October, graduate and undergraduate students at the University of California-San Diego have been experimenting with sensors, software and wireless devices that might allow Bob Veillette, stricken with “Locked-In Syndrome” eight years ago, to communicate. The team of students, under the direction of professor Nadir Weibel, plan to visit Veillette in late January to learn more about his condition.
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