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You've got this thing is so good at this Whitney Jasper is not verbal however she expresses emotions and controls words with her eyes.
All thanks in part to advance computer system called eagle eyes.
Legalize project.
Was founded by.
Professor dips a computer science professor at Boston College.
Using a series of wires in simulators placed on the face.
Whitney can interact using -- computer to play games figure out cognitive thinking problems and even show emotion.
Through eagle -- technology.
They are able to cause and effect to happen in their environment.
Worldwide there are 128.
Eagle -- computer systems two of them hearing -- top.
Experts say it's breakthrough technology that give people with special needs the sense as independents.
It's so good for our students.
To be able to activate things themselves to make choices expressed preferences for Whitney she's working on vision movement by controlling the computer mouse with her eyes to click on specific pictures.
That's an -- a graphic with audible sound.
Alongside of her -- train peers from -- high school.
The students -- train on the -- program.
Donate their time to work with people with special needs strengthening emotional communication.
But knows who cannot speak the students here get to interact with typically developing peers.
And they engage very well together Kelly -- and fox thirteen news and --
