Subj: Epilepsy and Computers

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>Problem:  Student with epilepsy who needs to use a computer experiences 
"pre-seizure activity" from the monitor.

As I recall, pre-seizure activity is related to some function of the scan or
frame rate of the monitor.  

* What type of monitor is it?  
*What is the resolution? 
*Does he react with certain software?  
*What frequency range seems to set him off? 
*How does he do with a REGULAR TV?  If the 30 frames per second (fps) doesn't
bother him, you might consider getting a scan converter that displays the
computer screen on a regular TV monitor in NTSC, which is 30 fps, and has a
different scanning frequency than a computer monitor.  The resolution is much
much lower ( harder to read), but it might do the trick.  Also. I BELIEVE
different computers scan at different rates, so a MAC might work where a VGA
monitor doesn't???  Sorry, my field is TV production, so I'm not up on the
tech of TV monitors VS computer monitors.  SOME monitors are MULTISYNC.  One
of these might do the trick. 

Sharon