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This page is the place to start if you are looking to find out about the technology that will help you use the telephone independently.

Click on a link from the following list for information specific to your needs:

  1. Telephones that are controlled by voice activation or a single switch.
  2. Telephones that are controlled through a computer or
    are used with the assistance of a computer.
  3. Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
    (includes computer based and stand-alone devices).

Follow this LINK to a comprehensive Searchable index of assistive technology:
AbleData: http://trace.wisc.edu/search

The photographs below represent some of the lives that this project
has touched by helping them to independently access the telephone.

Person using a laptop which controls a speakerphone.

1. Jules makes calls from home with his Powerbook 540c and the Madenta Proxi. Training was provided by LINC under the AbleComm project. Jules has been able to use the computer and the phone since learning about specialized telecommunications equipment at LINC. Thanks to the AbleComm grant, he was able to remain independent by finding the information necessary to allow him to communicate from his home.

Person using a Computer to take phone messages.

2. Page volunteers her time at the LINC Computer Resource Center in Baltimore, using equipment and skills that were funded by Bell Atlantic through the AbleComm grant.

 

Photo of person using a head controlled mouse to operate his Global Village Speakerphone computer controlled telephone.

3. Terry uses a head controlled mouse to operate his Global Village Speakerphone
a telephone that is controlled through software on his computer.

 

Photo of person using a speakerphone that is operated by a sigle switch.

4. Carol uses the Ameriphone Dialog RC200 switch adapted phone via the switch in her lap. It enables her to independently place and answer phone calls.

Author: Mike Birkmire
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