Telephone ownership and deaf people: implications for telephone surveys.
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The Telephone System Aid for the Deaf
This paper presents a computer application that helps people with hearing or speech difficulties to use a telephone. The TSAD (telephone system aid for the deaf) is a system aimed at providing such individuals with a telephone solution. The objective is far from obliterating the existing options, but rather to compliment on the up take for those instances when the telephone becomes the most app...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.89.11.1754