A NATIONWIDE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED: STRATEGIES TOWARD COMMERCIAL IMPLEMENTATION

The key objectives of this study are to define an affordable, useful, new communication service for the deaf and to assess the viability of developing commercial computer-communication networks to provide these communication services to the deaf community on a nationwide basis. The motivation is to help the deaf overcome the difficulties they experience in using the telephone system, radio, and, to a certain extent, TV in this modern communication-intensive world. In the process of achieving this goal, the deaf and other handicapped individuals could become the vanguard of the computer-based communication movement rather than continuing to lag years behind the technology. The combined service that we describe (denoted DNAS--Deaf Network and Associated Services) would allow access by existing Baudot/Weitbrecht Telecommunications Devices for the Deaf (TDDs) as well as by ASCII terminals with Bell modems and would provide limited intercommunication between deaf and hearing.

• Corporate Authors:

  SRI International

  333 Ravenswood Avenue
  Menlo Park, CA  United States  94025-3493

  National Telecommunications & Information Admin

  14th and Constitution Avenue, NW
  Washington, DC  United States 
• Authors:
  • Allan, D S
  • Craighill, E J
  • Oren, S S
  • Jackson, C L
  • Russell, S H
• Publication Date: 1981-10

Media Info

• Pagination: 129 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Communications; Deafness; Feasibility analysis; Information processing; Passenger information systems; Tariffs; Telecommunications; Telephone; Trade
• Subject Areas: Public Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00371918
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: Final Rpt.
• Contract Numbers: NT-81-SAC-00070
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 29 1983 12:00AM