Girl builds device to help people with cerebral palsy communicate

Ergo-Egg is a writing aid gadget that enables cerebral palsy patients to communicate.

She was driven to create this device because, in her country, there is a lot of stigma around this condition.

“People with cerebral palsy [CP] have the exact same brain capacities as you and me. However, they are often isolated from the rest of society because they cannot communicate properly. “When I realised that people with CP have completely functional brains and that only some parts of their body are stuck, I thought ‘that’s crazy! Why can’t they be part of society just like anyone else?’ In Jordan, there is a lot of stigma around the issue of CP and there is not much support for people with CP. We need to understand that there is nothing wrong with suffering from cerebral palsy or any other impairment”, she explained.

So, with the help of some experts, she developed a simple gadget to help these patients holing a pen more easily. The device was made thinking of children around five years old, because that’s when people start to learn to write.

“Although some solutions exist in other countries, they are all technology-reliant and therefore expensive or dependent on electricity. I wanted to create something that was not only simple but also cheap and accessible to everyone. This condition does not get worse over time so all we have to do is help them access the same opportunities as we do naturally,” the inventor described.

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