Please check out this case of a man in a "locked in" condition (alert wakefulness, paralysed but unable to speak) - HE WROTE A BOOK even though he can only BLINK ONE EYELID.
A look at the achievements of some extraordinary people who suffer from this syndrome - which is a diagnosis applied to people who are able to demonstrate alert wakefulness but are paralysed and unable to speak.
Book mentioned in talk: THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY by Jean-Dominique Bauby and published by Fourth Estate, London.
Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Roger Rees, Director, Institute for the Study of Learning Difficulties, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide.