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[senco-forum] epilepsy and computers

Astryngia astryngia at googlemail.com
Sun May 13 13:40:41 BST 2007

Article: [senco-forum] epilepsy and computers

You may find this helpful

http://www.epilepsy.org.uk/info/photo_computers.html

But you might also want to think in terms of scotopic sensitivity -
the dyslexia website has a special web-gadget which allows you to
change the colours on the screen - worth testing it out to see if
colourways make a difference (she can buy the software for her PC -
it's not expensive)


On 11/05/07, WrayJanice Wray <jwwray14 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'm helping a friend here - she has epilepsy - doesn't have seizures, just absences - and if working on a computer for any length of time she finds that these absences or blank states happen more often - is there anything she can do to help her - screen, special monitor etc - so that she could do a job which entails some computer work ?I'm sure someone will know
> JaniceJanice Wray Secondary SENCO, Herts
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