Questions
1) What does TDD stand for?
2) What's one benefit of using video relay?
3) What is one difference between video relay service and video chat?
Sources
https://nad.org/issues/telephone-and-relay-services/relay-services/tty
https://www.fcc.gov/guides/video-relay-services
http://www.michdhh.org/assistive_devices/text_telephone.html
How does this impact deaf people?
The TTY and Video Relay Service impacts deaf peoples lives by giving them the option to contact any hearing people and any businesses and 911.
How Does This Impact Hearing People?
The TTY and Video Relay impact hearing peoples lives by allowing deaf people to contact them and giving them the chance to have a normal conversation.
How Do The Deaf Call 911?
Another Way Deaf People Can Call 911
Video Chat vs Video Relay
TTY's, Relay Services, Video Relay
- When you video chat (ex. FaceTime) you directly call the person you want to talk to.
- You can't call 911 or any stores with video chat.
- For video relay services you call an operator and then they call where you are wishing to call.
Video Relay Benefits
- Allows them to use ASL
- Able to fully express what they want to say
- Flows like a telephone conversation
- Conversation can be much quicker
- Conversations can be between English & Spanish speaking people.
Video Relay
By Stephanie Sparkowski, Amanda Thompson, & Daisy Delgado
- Its a form of telecommunication relay service
- Allows people with the hearing disabilities who use sign to communitate with voice telephone users through video equipment instead of typed text.
- The operator is called the "communication assistant" (CA)
- The video relay services user & the CA can have a signed conversation
- The video relay user & the CA conversation flows better than text.
- Video relay services are required 24/7
How does it work?
- First you call the relay service from your TTY.
- Then you type what number you want to call.
- Then the operater has a phone & will call the number
- You type whatever you want to say & the operater will talk through the phone
TTY's
- TDD- telecommunication device for the deaf
- TTY- text telephones
- Typed message instead of speaking
- Allows the deaf to make and receive telephones
- Invented in the late 1960's