Stetson dedicates senior-friendly courtroom

From the Jacksonville (FL) Daily Record:

Dick Thornburgh, two-time former U.S. attorney general and governor ofPennsylvania, Bill Novelli, CEO of the AARP, Lawrence Davidow,president of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, and otherprominent leaders gathered last week to dedicate the country’s firstelder-friendly high-tech courtroom on Stetson University College ofLaw’s Gulfport campus. The barrier-free courtroom, dedicated in honorof Stetson Professor Emeritus William R. Eleazer, is a joint effort ofStetson’s Centers for Excellence in Advocacy and Elder Law. Thecourtroom is designed as a national model to increase courtroom accessto the elderly and disabled. It uses up-to-date technology includingflat-panel monitors, hearing amplification devices and a multi-lingualsoftware speech synthesizer that will read aloud words displayed on acomputer screen, translate them into multiple languages, and evenconvert words to Braille displays.

Rebecca Morgan is the director of Stetson’s Center for Excellence in Elder Law.