Claire has cerebral palsy and though she cannot walk or talk, she is intellectually intact and highly aware.
Her brain has been, in essence, trapped inside her body. Now, thanks to specialists at the Alberta Children’s Hospital and community-funded state-of-the-art technology called Brain Computer Interface (BCI), she is learning to use her mind to do things her body cannot. By wearing a special headset, Claire concentrates on certain words that signal the BCI technology to control a variety of devices.
For the first time in her life, and using only her mind, she can switch on toys, play video games, shoot her brothers with a dart gun, and roll a mechanical dice during family game nights....