Hi Hilary,

I work for the AT company Smartbox. This is a link I sent to one of our customers last week who was looking to use the chat pad with Grid 3 : https://www.windowscentral.com/how-set-and-use-xbox-chatpad-windows-10-pcs

Hope this helps.

Kind regards,

Jess

Hi Jess

Thanks for the link, its very useful. Do you know whether the chat pad will work with those particular apps? All I can find out is that it will work with "game controller compatible apps" but then I can't get confirmation that Word and Googledocs are compatible in that way.

Thanks again

Hilary

A friend of mine who is good at IT visited a pupil with Friedrich’s Ataxia at home to try to set up an XBox control pad with an onscreen keyboard that had a predictive text function. We hoped this would allow him to use Word to produce his own written work. It was a real struggle for him to use it, as his FA was advanced and progressing quickly.

A specialist team from Barnsley Assistive Technology came and assessed the pupil. He was given a Liberator speech device. Again, that worked up to a point. It depends on how the condition progresses. We always seemed to be a step behind in finding suitable IT. I had an older tea aged girl with FA who continued to struggle on with a standard laptop and hated ‘specialist’ equipment with a vengeance!

i hope you find some5ing that works. A scribe who records using a small laptop or iPad can be a good solution.

would a smaller keyboard, like a cherry keyboard be an option? Or a wired track pad or joystick with the windows on screen keyboard?

Your local specialist EAT team is at ACT in Birmingham (if you are in Walsall) - so you could call for support. 01214663028