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Electronic device for my vision and hearing impaired great-grandmother? (self.Blind)
submitted by whalefeeder2
Hello everyone,
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Not sure if this is the right community for this, but my great-grandmother is now 102 years old and my family and I are looking for something that would enable her to listen to music and possibly to listen to audio of the news. Ideally it would be able to move with her as well so she isn't locked down. The problems are plenty, though. She's extremely vision impaired, she doesn't speak a word of English, and she doesn't understand technology at all. The most she understands with technology is how to turn the TV on and flick the volume or channels up and down.
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My first thought was the old iPod shuffle that just clips to her shirt and she just needs to click the Play button in the center and we'll supply her with the music she wants. I can't think of anything else that would work, but that one wouldn't be able to give her the news.
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Do any of you use anything or have heard of anything that she could use? If any of you know anything that fits but it has compromises like it's stationary, please let me know anyway.
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Thank you all for the help!!
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Not sure if this is the right community for this, but my great-grandmother is now 102 years old and my family and I are looking for something that would enable her to listen to music and possibly to listen to audio of the news. Ideally it would be able to move with her as well so she isn't locked down. The problems are plenty, though. She's extremely vision impaired, she doesn't speak a word of English, and she doesn't understand technology at all. The most she understands with technology is how to turn the TV on and flick the volume or channels up and down.
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My first thought was the old iPod shuffle that just clips to her shirt and she just needs to click the Play button in the center and we'll supply her with the music she wants. I can't think of anything else that would work, but that one wouldn't be able to give her the news.
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Do any of you use anything or have heard of anything that she could use? If any of you know anything that fits but it has compromises like it's stationary, please let me know anyway.
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Thank you all for the help!!
keukenhulp31 2 points 4y ago
What about hearing aids?
estj317 1 points 4y ago
Wow. Congratulations 102? That’s a really old ripe age!!!!
Yeah, not sure if there is a good solution, If it’s one of the languages seri or alexa can speak one of those. And ask her to promt it by hey seri or hey alexa?
Yeah, not sure if there is a good solution, If it’s one of the languages seri or alexa can speak one of those. And ask her to promt it by hey seri or hey alexa?
tasareinspace 1 points 4y ago
You didn't mention what language(s) she does speak, but the Amazon Alexa knows English, Japanese, and German, and the google home knows English, Japanese, French and German. Siri knows a bunch more languages (Danish, Durch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portugese, Spanish, Swedish, Arabic, Cantonese, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Malay, Russian, Thai and Turkish). I know the home and echo and the apple homepod are stationary, but they are pretty intuitive, even for non-tech users, and you can get pretty good (and loud) audio quality from the standard Echo, in my experience, so I assume a good Home or Homepod could also do the same. I would just worry about if she would be able to hear the device clearly enough when interacting with it.
girlonwheelz13 1 points 4y ago
My best friend is blind and deaf. She uses all Apple products.
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