With Pen and Paper: Communication Boards

A person with ALS wears a spectacle frame with a laser pointer. The laser pointer is pointed at a board with letters - a communication board. Photo by Fezcat on Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.

It can take some time before an eye-tracking system is in place. Until then, analog solutions can be used. Communication boards printed on paper create a basis for exchange. Example instructions can be found here: https://downloads.tobiidynavox.com/Conditions/ALS/Communication_Board/TD_CommunicationBoard_ALS_en-US.pdf