I want more details! About the blink-system, the communication aid Adam uses – and more poetry, please.

 

Brilliant AAC role model and only 10 years old – fantastic!

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10-year-old wins award for poetry written by blinks

Brian Donnelly

17 Jul 2010

A blind boy who suffers from major health problems has won an award for his poetry, which he writes by a process of blinking to choose words and syllables.

Judges, however, were unaware of the incredible feat by Adam Bojelian, aged 10, until he reached the semi-finals of the competition.

ADAM BOJELIAN: Told the award ceremony of his love of writing.

Although Adam instigated his highly personalised means of expression from a very early age, the story of how he taught himself the technique is reminiscent of The Diving Bell And The Butterfly, a memoir by French journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby, which he wrote by blinking his left eye after a stroke.

Adam told the audience: “It is really hard telling people what you are thinking by blinking, but I love writing poems”.

He delighted the audience by reciting – using his computer-generated voice – one of his three entries, entitled a A Silly Poem.

A Silly Poem, Adam Bojelian 2010

At my school the green fish digs a hole and chases the dog down the road.

In the yard the big dinosaur laughs out loud and tells me a joke.

I laugh.

Later that day I saw a bug eat my teacher for lunch.

The lion reads a book in a tree and then, a scientist with a monkey drives a car too fast through the air.

In my dream, I catch a spaceship to the moon.

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