Irene Thambi is a class 3 student at Thika Primary School for the Blind. Irene has a problem with her hands whereby the left hand cannot completely do anything. Then the right hand is not firm to hold something, so Irene writes Braille using her tongue that means she holds the stylus with the right hand and presses using the tongue so that it becomes firm. In case she wants to locate the hole where she has reached writing she would locate it using the lips since she has no sense of touch.
I asked a teacher about Irene and I was told that she is very clever and intelligent and through my own observations I found out that its true because, when I assign her to do math flash she always has an answer to the sum but the problem is she cant be able to put that answer down using the keyboard
The challenge we have with Irene is that the right hand that she uses is not stable such that if she wants to do math flash (a computer game) she cannot be able to locate the numbers properly but keeps on pressing any key from one end of the keyboard to the other. We are still trying to help her master the keys every time she comes to the computer lab
Irene has a good memory and is very kin to listen to instructions. She is determined to succeed in the computer program despite her disability.
