Nachum Lehman is a System Architect, .NET developer and Network Engineer who has 35 years experience in computer programming and technical problem solving. He started programming in 1981 on a Timex Sinclair with 2k of ram. In 1997, he founded a not for profit to give individuals with disabilities the technical support they required to reliably and consistently use their assistive devices. That initiative still serves hundreds of clients using electronic Braille, augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), accessibility switches, smartphones, voice dictation, and everything in between. In 2006, he expanded these services to serve ALS patients using eye tracking devices. The results were amazing and terrifying at the same time. He quickly realized that many ALS patients were locked in simply because they were never properly trained to use the technology they had. Others were incommunicative because they never received the technologies which could help them. He devoted dozens of hours to each and every ALS patient, hired personnel to develop new and better communication systems for eye tracking devices and was on call 24 hours a day. He lives by the motto “All ALS patients can communicate and connect given the right support at the right time.”
