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 The Echolalia Press World Wide Web site was: developed, designed, and produced by Paula Schwindeman; the content writen by Adam Ward Seligman. The creation of this site was for five reasons:
1) Paula Schwindeman is a disabled student learning to design web sites so that she may work out of her home. Her disability prevents her from working outside her home. Like wise Adam Ward Seligman's Tourette Syndrome prevents him from also working outside his home.
This site is designed to offer writing, poetry, music and other creative
works done by artists who happen to also have Tourette Syndrome. The primary
focus of this publishing company is to offer a variety of works done by
people with Tourette, which are not necessarily about Tourette. Some of the
works reflect or express life with Tourette, but many pieces reflect life in
general. Echolalia Press' goal is to be a place for artist's with Tourette
to showcase and sell their work.
We also distribute close to fifty titles in addition to the four we have
published in the last 14 months. These include books on Tourette Syndrome,
Epilepsy, Attention Deficit Disorder, and Childhood abuse with an emphasis
on Disassoative disorders.
While designing this site we had to deal with the additional special needs
of those with Tourette Syndrome and Childhood abuse. Tourette Syndrome is
not a stand alone disorder, but often includes a cluster of disorders and
genetic problems such as: Attention Deficit Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive
Disorder, Hyperactivity, Learning Disabilities, vision problems, as well as
many other neurological and genetic disorders. To address these complex
issues we deliberately designed in: redundancies, large type, special
attention to clarity of information, and visual clarity and separation of
the information displayed. Besides the use of color with certain text to
create clarity, we also used "Hard Returns" (black horizontal lines) to
break up the text fields. All though most site designers consider "Hard
Returns" poor design elements, we used them for a very specific need. They
help to keep people with learning problems, ADD, OCD, and Hyperactivity from
becoming confused, and overwhelmed by what they see. Since both of us have
learning problems, this gave us a unique insight to these special needs.
The overall feel and look of the site was to convey the rich feeling of hand
made books. Ms Schwindeman designed the navigation bar so that you can
navigate to almost any place on the site with-in one to three clicks. In
fact, this very page is a fully operating page of the site. You can link
from here to any linked part of the site.
Paula Schwindeman |
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