Our science 9 class had face timed with Tim Mepham, a man with Huntington’s disease, and his daughter, Nicola who are staying at Nicola Lodge. The shared names are purely coincidence. They had talked to us about what their experiences having and taking care of someone with Huntington’s disease, respectively. Despite being told that Tim most likely would need time to respond to our questions, we found that Tim was very quick witted. Overall, talking with Tim was amusing and inspired me to try and help him.

We are going to try and help create objects he can use for things he has difficulty with. A few ideas we have come up with are simple things like a light and more portable cane to help him get up when he sits down, a simplified TV remote with larger buttons and a computer mouse that he can grip and use more comfortably. I personally would like to try and develop the computer mouse.

I cannot really say what I would need to do for this, as the idea came after our conversation, so I would have to ask a bit more to find out what makes using the mouse difficult or uncomfortable. I would have to contact him, most likely through our teacher Mr. Robinson. I would also have to see what research and materials I would need based on what I would need to include in the project.

The solution fluency process was fine. It did not go as well as I would have liked, as I do not have the materials or an idea of the materials that are necessary for this. It would have been a lot better for me if I had come up with the idea during the time we had speaking with Tim, but I think I can manage.

My post does not seem too bad, in my own opinion. It will definitely need to be edited as I gain more information on what I am going to do and how I will do it, but I think that it still fits the requirements that I am currently able to fulfill.