With the introduction of APH's Braille+ Mobile Manager, I thought it was time to talk about someone I've looked up to for many years.

As a student at the Kentucky School for the Blind, I became aware of Larry Skutchan when I began working on the apple II E computer. My screen reader was a program called Bex and I remember seeing Larry's name on the credits. I would later meet Larry as I toured APH and stopped in his office to hear some of the latest speech-enabled products offered at the time. It's people like Larry who fired up my interest in technology and computers.