Name: Robbie's Voice-Activated Room
Uploaded: 2020-03-14T23:20:13.000Z
Duration: 4 min 43 s
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Nobody else can judge what I do, or anything.

BILL WEIS: The first day I was at Robbie's house,

it was very evident that Robbie's bedroom

ROBBIE: I was diagnosed at the age of five

At 19, he's got very limited use of hands.

CARRIE IVEY: But, you know, he's got the same thought

ROBBIE IVEY: My mom is like my main advocate.

Helps me do basically every function I need to do.

was hard to do without calling for assistance.

CARRIE IVEY: I met Bill through the muscular dystrophy

anybody that knows anything about voice activation,

CARRIE IVEY: A couple days later, I had a phone call.

that Robbie's bed is something he can no longer control.

to make a small, incremental change in the bed

CARRIE IVEY: I was up every hour, hour and a half.

ROBBIE IVEY: He had to do a lot of research

CARRIE IVEY: And from there, little by little,

does my imagination allow me to want to have voice activated?

ROBBIE IVEY: I am able to do stuff on my own.

And at let's me give my mom a break a little bit.

CARRIE IVEY: I expected not to get any sleep

And here, you know, I can get out and take a walk.

Sometimes I need that hour, hour and a half of sanity

ROBBIE IVEY: So is that all the shirts I'm taking?

BILL WEIS: Voice activation opened up a whole new world

that I don't think many people really can understand yet.

Robbie's got a lot more freedom than he had before.

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