With slight movement of her eyes, long-disabled woman finally regains her voice
WATERVILLE, N.S. — As her grey-blue eyes move ever so slightly, Joellan Huntley’s determination to be heard becomes immediately clear.
Unable to speak or move her body because of catastrophic brain injuries she suffered in a car crash when she was 15, the Nova Scotia woman made headlines last week when her family revealed she had used the latest eye-gaze tracking technology to speak to them for the first time in 21 years.
During a news conference Tuesday at a rehabilitation centre in a rural corner of Nova Scotia, Huntley shifted her eyes as she looked at her computer tablet when a reporter asked her speech language pathologist if the technology had improved in recent years.
“Yes,” Huntley said through the computer.