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Total Resource Guide:
The 21st century offers consumers many choices
in communication. Telephones alone range from analog to digital,
speakerphones to large button, and even flashing-light telephones.
Some telephones talk and some type, as in TTY devices. They run
on traditional networks or via cable networks, satellite, and over
the Internet. We even can make cross-continental calls to China
via computer modem!
Telephone features also have been enhanced to
serve most anyone. For instance, talking caller I.D serves both
visually- or mobility-impaired users. Today is the day of custom
communication, so contact one of the vendors below to take advantage
of all your options.
Adapted Telephones for
Everyone
Just whistle . . . or speak, make a sound, or use a switch to dial,
answer, or hang up your telephone. Ablephone™ produces three
types of voice-activated telephones for people with limited mobility.
For all the details, visit:
http://www.ablephone.com/
Phone Merchants
http://www.phonemerchants.com/visim.html
A large selection of adapted telephones.
Hitec Group International
https://www.hitec.com/hitec.html
Adapted telephones, computers, watches, and magnification tools
The Hitech Special Needs Center is an
international entity facilitated by Hitec Communications. The Center
provides information about communication equipment designed to assist
people who are deaf, hard of hearing, visually impaired, speech
impaired, or who have limited mobility. Their job is to match appropriate
devices with consumers.
Assistive Devices for hard of hearing and deafness
include clocks and wake-up devices, personal emergency response
systems (PERS), cordless amplified telephones, personal listening
systems, portable TTYs, PC platform TTYs, caller identification
that announces the caller's name and number, etc. (Some devices
for hard of hearing will also benefit those with blindness.)
Devices for consumers with blindness or visual
impairments range from screen-readers and magnifiers to talking
telephones and dialing accessories, talking note takers and data
assistants, video magnification products, closed-caption television
sets, and voice caller ID units.
Assistive devices for speech include agumentative
communication, amplified speech, telephone handsets, anti-stuttering
devices, artificial larynx, and speech amplifiers.
People with limited mobility can find safety devices,
as well as special phone rests and brackets, and voice-activated
telephones.
To learn more, visit: go to http://www.specialneedscenter.com
or
call: Call 1-800-433-8505 V/TTY.
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