Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications: California

VIDEO [CC] Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program: Equipment & Services for Individuals with a Speech Disability.

This archived webinar introduces participants to the free equipment and services available to disabled Californians through the Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program (DDTP),



• The California Telephone Access Program (CTAP), AKA California Phones, and

• The California Relay Service (CRS) with a focus on consumers with a speech disability.

Video from Ability Tools



Learn how you can assist your speech-disabled clients to receive free phones that accommodate their needs and how to use operator-assisted relay services that allow them to have conversations over the phone even if most other people have difficulties understanding their speech.



Love Miller is an Outreach Specialist for the California Telephone Access Program, specializing in consumers with speech difficulties. Love provides outreach and information for people with speech difficulties through presentations and informational booths. She earned her BSW from San Jose State University and her MPA from National University.

How To Communication With Deaf People

VIDEO [CC] - Educate the hearing people how to communication with Deaf and Hard of Hearing people.



Kati Roman's new video on YouTube to educate the hearing people how to connect / talk with deaf and hard of hearing people. Kati Roman, who is a hard of hearing person, which is issuing a call to action, inviting community to be part of the solution to explain why she is doing a good cause, to educating and awareness about the Deaf and Hard of Hearing people.

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VIDEO [CC] - Haley Sadler: Educating hearing people about the Deaf world.



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Do We Need Specialized Hardware For The Deaf ?

VIDEO: Do we need specialized hardware for the Deaf? Companies that once made specialized hardware may soon be relegated to software and services.



A company called Purple Communications this week unveiled a product called SmartVP. It’s a videophone with applications and features to help Deaf people communicate. Purple says it’s the first videophone to feature “true HD quality.”



How do Deaf people use the telephone? In the past, most used a typing system called TTY. Paging devices soon followed; the term became so fixed that the Deaf community is said to still call all wireless devices, including iPhones, “pagers.”

But the age of the video call has changed all that. Now, the Deaf and Hard of Hearing routinely communicate by simply using sign language over a video call. When a Deaf person wants to communicate with a hearing person, there are “relay services,” involving live translators proficient in sign language.



One smart thing Purple’s doing is pursuing what they call a “five-screen strategy.” What this means is that their customers can use Purple’s relay service on PC, laptop, tablet, smartphone, or TV. Here’s a YouTube video pitching SmartVP. Refreshingly, it’s not full of over-the-top music, like the majority of tech promotional fare out there. ...READ MORE: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/513336/do-we-need-specialized-hardware-for-the-deaf/



Sign up for more information: http://www.purple.us/SmartVP. Are you ready for a smarter way to make calls? Make the Smart Choice. SmartVP.

Deaf People Grateful For Steve Jobs' Creations

VIDEO: Apple gadgets help Deaf community to communicate.



ROCHESTER, N.Y. - RIT/NTID college students have grown up with cell phones in their hands, but for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing cell phones and other text-based gadgets have provided another way to communicate. For students at NTID, using an Apple iPad and iPhone have changed their lives.

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iPod Shuffle Commercial With Sign Language - Ipod Shuffle commercial with American Sign Language (ASL), demonstrating hands free operation. (Imagine iPod Shuffle attached to beltloop).