I tried using a mouth stick when in rehab. My arms were not strong enough at first. It hurt my jaw so much trying to keep it in my mouth OK. I never got around to trying it, but I thought maybe clipping it onto the brim of a baseball cap, or attaching it to the side of a pair of glasses. I would assume you would loose some control, but at least your mouth would not hurt.
Greg _____ I've always used just the mouthstick on my computer in the living room. It is not a quiet environment so speech recognition does not work well. I do have dragon installed on that machine, but very seldom use it as it is an older version and I also need to use the mouthstick to control the computer. Three years ago I got a laptop with Vista so I have been using that speech recognition program. I just upgraded to a larger laptop-my Christmas present, purchased our black Friday-and it has Windows 7 so I am using that speech recognition now. I usually use the laptop in my bedroom. One of the benefits of using a mouthstick is that it makes me exercise my neck! I find that I have to consciously exercise my neck when I'm using speech recognition-the mouthstick makes me exercise. :-) Joan
