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From: Jack.O'keeffe@f26.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Jack O'keeffe)
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Subject: Re: Captioning
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Date: 23 Mar 91 03:05:38 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

 FO> Oh enjoy the workshop--sounds like a neat thing--is it like a
 FO> conference call --but with TDD?

Not like a confrence call, Fran.  It was concerning the relatively
new Pennsylvania Dual Party TDD Relay that enables statewide calls
between TDDs and voice phones.  A real blessing for hearing impaired
and/or speech impaired people, since there does not have to be a TDD
on the other end of the call.

The workshop was too crowded. I learned very little new, and I expect
that Stu learned nothing at all that was new to him.  On the plus
side, the workshop facilitator from AT&T was a former Miss Deaf
Minnesota (and runner-up for Miss Deaf USA) so we couldn't consider
the afternoon a total waste ;-)  She signed too swiftly for my very
limited receptive ASL skills, but she was super easy to speechread.
That and the fact that Stu is very good company made it a worthwhile
St. Patrick's Day afternoon.
                                    Jack.

... Live, from Beaver County, it's . . . .

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