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                             THE HANDICAP DIGEST

                                 Issue # 2866

                          Thursday, August 13, 1992

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Subject: shhh messages
From: Karen.Keil@p0.f809.n104.z1.fidonet.org (Karen Keil)
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

The SHHH convention report is now ready.  They are coming as 13
posts.

I hope you found them interesting (at least some of it).  I wrote
more than planned!

Now hold on to your hats!  Here they come!  Anything omitted that
should have been said, please post that information.  Let us know
what you know!

If you have any questions or comments about anything in the posts,
please let me know.

Auf wiedersehen,

Karen
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Subject: SHHH report 1 of 13
From: Karen.Keil@p0.f809.n104.z1.fidonet.org (Karen Keil)
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

Observations of the SHHH Convention--Cedar Rapids, Iowa

This report will be day-by-day unless where noted. This tells
only what I saw or heard and doesn't necessarily cover everything
that happened.

June 24, 1992
     Finally got all ready to catch the plane from Denver to
Cedar Rapids.  I did not pack until the evening before---typical
to-the-last-minute preparations.  To top it off, I did not even
get off work until about 8:00 p.m., trying to wrap things up
before leaving.

     I won't tell you about the plane trip---just that an elderly
couple took the seat I was assigned to, and with the man
appearing sickly, I did not have the heart to ask the man to move
from 19A (my assigned window seat) to 19C (the aisle seat).  In
retrospect, they should have sat in the two seats next to the
aisle because the stewardess ended up having to reach over me to
give an oxygen tank to the man, who was having problems breathing
(and she periodically gave assistance throughout the flight).  We
finally took off after a delay of some 20 or so minutes.

      The plane took off about 11:20 a.m. and no lunch was
served.  It arrived in Cedar Rapids about 2:00 p.m.

     In due time, I arrived at the Roosevelt Hotel, which was
next door to the Five Seasons Hotel and Convention Center.  The
room on the 9th floor had a very musty odor, but opening the
window and then running the air conditioning helped clear up the
air (and it remained fresh for the rest of the stay).   It had a
good view of the Cedar River.

     The Hotel was old, built in 1927, and was not as nice as the
Five Seasons. Some conventioners complained about the
accommodations and one even moved after a night to the Five
Seasons.  (Jack O'Keeffe heard complaints but he had none for his
room, which was better than mine.)  It was fine for me once the
air was ventilated--the room, the furniture and bedding were
clean and recent and it suited me fine once I got over the lack
of a tiny refrigerator.  The hotel is in process of being
converted into senior residences and a lot of re-modelling has
already been done and is currently being done right now.  The
only bad part was the s-l-o-w-n-e-s-s of the elevators!

     The hotel did give me a signalling device for the phone and
the door (which I had requested) but there were no other special
accommodations--the Five Seasons Hotel had captioned TVs and a
TDD pay phone and who knows what else, which the Roosevelt did
not have.  Since I didn't spend a whole lot of time in my room
during the convention, the lack of captions was only an
inconvenience at night when watching the news and HBO.

Enough about hotels!

Two other conventioners flew on my flight, and after settling in
my room and calling home to report I had arrived safely, it was
after 4:00 p.m. and no lunch yet.  Lunch was finally obtained at
a McDonald's across the street on the next block (from the hotel)
where the two other conventioners from my flight were waiting in
line to order 'lunch,' too.  That evening, more conventioners
arrived, including the SHHH staff people. That evening was to be
my last 'quiet' evening until after the convention was over.

June 25, 1992

This was the official first day of the Convention, but nothing
big or important was going to happen until the Welcome Reception
that evening.

I went on the Tour to Dubuque, Iowa all that day.  The driver,
George Heeren, told us that he had a hearing-impaired young son.
We toured the Mathias Ham mansion, which was built in 1856 for a
wealthy lead ore magnate, and had a box lunch there.  The lady
guide was dressed in Civil War era costume.  She said that she
had never used a FM system before (most of us were using loop
systems) but she did fine.

We went on a cable car that went up the steep hill for 255 feet
to a lookout deck.  From the deck, we saw the grand old
Mississippi and the states of Illinois and Wisconsin on the other
side of the river as well as Iowa on our side.  That was the
closest I have been to Wisconsin (never been there).  I have been
to Illinois (via travelling through in 1959 and a plane change at
the Chicago airport in 1963).

After that, we had a guided tour of the Riverboat Museum where
we learned about the importance of the Mississippi and steam
boats in Dubuque's history.

My seat companion on the bus had a cochlear implant and we talked
about it at length on the way back to Cedar Rapids.  She said
that she had normal hearing until she was 35 years old and lost
it within days due to drugs for an illness.  She lost most of her
friends because they could not cope with a suddenly deaf friend.
She added that you can't lose with a cochlear implant--you have
potentially much to gain and nothing to lose by having one.

The Welcome Reception---
After picking up my convention packet and running out for a quick
run to the border at Taco Bell, I went to the Welcome Reception
where I met Jack and Ret O'Keeffe.  Having the advantage of
knowing what he looked like from a very small picture in the SHHH
Journal, I found him first.  It was interesting meeting people
at the reception.  One man from Washington State had created his
own FM system by buying an amplifier and a two-headed microphone
from Radio Shack and a loop from a FM system supplier. Altogether
it cost much less than a brand-name FM system.  He had me try it
out and it made the voices stand out with the background subdued.
The reception was noisy to begin with!

The featured act of the reception was a 36-year-old woman named
Linda Day, who was a professional singer (and still is!) before
she lost much of her hearing.  She has a 70 db loss, very close
to what mine was (73 db in high school) and sang beautifully
songs she wrote and composed.   One song, MAKE YOUR DREAMS COME
TRUE, made one think---

     Well now, don't put them off 'til tomorrow
     Your dreams aren't just things that you own
     Today will soon turn into yesterday
     And yesterday's chiseled in stone,
     Well now, if one of your dreams is neglected
     Fate might just steal it from you
     A dream is a promise you make to yourself
     So do everything you can do...
     To make your dreams come true.
     (Music and words by Linda Day, copyrighted 1991)

It is said that she sings in a style reminiscent of Anne Murray.
At any rate, I enjoyed her singing, which sounded very pretty.

Jack and Ret O'Keeffe and I returned to the Roosevelt Hotel via
the skywalk (had a little trouble finding an unlocked door!)
and they showed me pictures of their family and some Silentalkers
at the Little Rock Convention in their suite.

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Subject: SHHH report 2 of 13
From: Karen.Keil@p0.f809.n104.z1.fidonet.org (Karen Keil)
Organization: FidoNet node 1:104/809.0 - Fantasy Mountain, Golden CO


[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

Part 2 of the SHHH Convention ---Cedar Rapids, Iowa

June 26, 1992

The day started off with a disappointment.  After wrongly setting
my Shake-Awake alarm for 6:45 p.m. instead of 6:45 a.m., I woke
up at 8:45 a.m. and missed one of the reasons I came to Cedar
Rapids for---the keynote speech of Henry Kisor, author of WHAT'S
THAT PIG OUTDOORS?.  I came to the general assembly just in time
to miss the whole speech and to hear Rocky Stone say that it was
a small world...Henry Kisor's grandfather was his supervisor at
the CIA, a government agency.

But not all was lost....I saw Henry Kisor in the hallway of the
hotel and in the lobby so at least the chance was gotten to see
him, if not the speech!

One of the SHHH staffers, Lori Ropa, was able to get his
autograph signed in her copy of his book.  She said that if I
left my name and address, SHHH may be able to send me a
transcript of his speech (which I did).  The Cedar Rapids Gazette
(June 27, 1992, page 1B) covered Kisor's speech under the
headline, DEAF AUTHOR RELATES STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE.  [If
anyone is interested in the newspaper article, I can post a copy
on the echo, with due credit to the paper.]

Afterwards, I participated in a Captioning Study/Survey on the
5th floor of the Five Seasons Center.  They had us evaluate two
sets of captions on two different TVs to indicate which we liked
better.  They used clips from popular TV shows like Murphy Brown
and Nova for the tests. Among the techniques they were
trying were:

      --the captions located where the
speaker(s) were versus having them at the bottom.

     --the captions prefaced with the name
of the speaker.

     --Moving the captions all over the screen
depending on what the screen is showing to show least cover-up of
the action.

     --Changing the background box to traditional black,
other opague colors--blue, etc., semi-transparent, transparent (no
box, just letters placed on the scene).

     --Varying the colors of the caption letters

     --Varying the caption typefonts

I liked the semi-transparent boxes and some of the new typefonts.
Some of the typefonts made it harder to read while others were
more readable.  All the different techniques were
enlightening---we don't have to accept black background boxes and
block type letters for captioning!

They also asked about other features--size, etc. and whether we
wanted to have the option of changing them on the TV along with
the other features above, and whether we wanted everything
(verbatim) or just the gist (simplified captions).

They passed out buttons saying, 'I'm helping to improve TV
Captioning' with the words 'Caption Format Research Project'
underneath a picture of a TV.  In addition, they gave out entry
forms to win a caption decoder.

The one bad thing about the convention was that various things
were on different floors--the SHHH bookstore was on the 4th,
other things on the 5th, and so on. The workshops (most of them)
were on the 2nd floor.  Waiting for the elevator took some time.

To be continued----

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Subject: SHHH report 3 of 13
From: Karen.Keil@p0.f809.n104.z1.fidonet.org (Karen Keil)
Organization: FidoNet node 1:104/809.0 - Fantasy Mountain, Golden CO


[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

     Part 3 of the SHHH Convention---Cedar Rapids, Iowa

June 26, 1992--cont.

Attended three workshops, which were:

Breaking the Myth of "Perfect Hearing":  What People Without
Hearing Loss Really Hear
by K. Patterson, G. DeRosear, J. Moore, J. Nealon, K. Walters, T.
Wicks

Quote from the Program book--
'Frequently, the person with hearing loss assumes that a person
who does not have a hearing loss can and should hear everything
occurring around him.  This may lead to a communication barrier
between the norma. hearing person and the person with a hearing
loss.  Learn what those with "perfect hearing" don't hear and
bridge the communication gap.'

They broke the components of communication down to:
     1.  the sender
     2.  the message
     3.  the medium
     4.  the environment
     5.  the receiver

Anything that interferes with any of the components can interfere
with communication---e.g. type of communication--sign,oral,etc.,
stammering, dialects, phrasing of the message, how the message is
sent (clearly, distinctly), noise, distance, and room acoustics.

I'm guilty of assuming that hearing people hear everything---even
they can't always!  Even with that in mind, I still assume they
can hear everything without strain or effort. Even when hearing
people do have to strain or put out effort, they have it a whole
lot easier than hearing-impaired people who have to strain and
put out the effort not just sometimes, but ALL THE TIME!  Still,
it was enlightening how they broke it down--so much that it was
put down here.

----------------------

911 Emergency for Hearing Impaired People
by Toni Dunne

Quote from program book:
'Over the past decade, technological emergency advancements have
been made to better serve their communities.  However, vvery
little is known about the unique needs of the hearing impaired
population.  The Americans with Disabilities Act  (ADA) mandates
all 9-1-1 systems be accessible to individuals with speech and
hearing impairments.  This session will inform conferees on the
requirements, legal implications, training and education required
in order to assure the provision of quality services.'

Ms. Dunne gave a handout, 9-1-1 Emergency Communications with
various information and articles.  One thing she pointed out was
that the ADA requires telephone emergency services to provide
direct access to individuals who use TDDs and computer modems.
She asked us if we use 9-1-1 or another emergency number in our
local area.  It made me realize that my area doesn't have 911 tdd
access---if we want to call emergency, we have to call a special
TDD number (not 911!) which is prominently displayed in the front
pages of the Denver directory.  She stressed we are responsible
for bring direct access about in our local areas if the situation
is otherwise.

---------------------------

What Did They Say?...Enhancing Communication Accessibility at
Large
by Randolph Mowry, Steven Boone

They conducted a survey of convention attendees at the 1991
convention and only 202 people returned their surveys!  It was
interesting to note that oral and sign interpreters were
generally least helpful while FM systems and captioning were most
helpful.  I submitted my name to get a copy of their results so
will not mention anything further here.

-----------------------

The Awards ceremony was held at 5:30 at which Jack O'Keeffe
accepted an award on behalf of the editor of the Pittsburgh #1
chapter for Outstanding Newsletters.  I watched the awards and it
was pretty informative.  One of the people from the Boulder, CO,
Chapter, Colette Ancelin, accepted an award for Ann Pruitt for
all her efforts, among them chairing the 1991 Convention in
Denver.

At this ceremony, Jack O'Keeffe introduced me to Nancy Wessner,
who serves on the SHHH Board.

The Exhibit Reception will be covered next...
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Subject: SHHH report 4 of 13
From: Karen.Keil@p0.f809.n104.z1.fidonet.org (Karen Keil)
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

Part 4 of the SHHH Convention --- Cedar Rapids, Iowa

June 26, 1992 cont.

The Exhibits Reception---

What's covered here are the noteworthy and new in the exhibits.
As for the reception itself, they served ice cream with all kinds
of toppings for you to put on.  Very refreshing!

Now for the exhibits...all the information are from all the times
I toured the exhibits on various days---there's no need to talk
about the exhibits repeatedly.

This year was the first time the exhibitors were allowed to sell
their products on the exhibition floor.  HARC took advantage of
this by bringing a lot of merchandise and did a good business in
assistive and other devices.

----------------------------

COMPLY---Custom Soft Earmold
by Hearing Components and Disposables
Health Care Specialities Division
3M Health Care Group
Building 225-1N-12, 3M Center
St. Paul, MN 55144-1000

This is a orange-colored foam earmold that you squeeze flat and
put in your ear and it inflates back to conform to your ear canal
for maximum fit, reducing feedback and other problems. According
to a letter from them, they were able to enlist 125 conventioners
(including myself) for a 6-week trial study to try out the molds.
You dispose of the mold after two weeks or when soiled.

According to the brochure, the advantages are --
--no waiting for a custom ear molding casting or fitting---
--8 (eight) styles with multiple venting options
--fit securely, won't slip out when inserted properly
--reduce annoying feedback and whistling
--not visible when inserted properly (oh, what vanity!!!!)
--soft at room temperature, ultrasoft at body temperature--this
makes it comfortable
--improve reliability of hearing aid
--prevent wax buildup

They are shaped like short fat tubes.  They are intriguing
things.  I had to get used to it and had problems with my jaw
being tense because it was trying to 'hold' onto the earmold
while my regular old hard one was in the other ear.  They gave a
6-week supply to each person. After 6 weeks, then a questionnaire
will come in the mail.
---------------------------------

AT&T

Videophone--
They featured a videophone with a COLOR display.  The image is
kind of blurry and not very defined but you can recognize the
person.  I could recognize myself on the display when the
representative demonstrated it to me.  I think the display is
LCD, but am not sure.

Relay computer/monitor setup--
They also had a computer/monitor setup that their relay operators
use which was also demonstrated.  The monitor was monochrome
orange--it was interesting to see TDD conversations from the
viewpoint of the operator.

Compact TDD 2930--
Their compact TDD 2930 has a feature that my Ultratec compact TDD
does not have---the words AUTO, ASCII, BAUDOT appearing on the
opening display when you turn it on.  You can switch the TDD from
autoswitching between baudot and ASCII to have it on Baudot or
Ascii only.  My TDD is always autoswitching no matter what mode I
have it on, so guess no need to indicate the mode.  Other than
that, it's the same as mine with its 32 K memory option installed.

Printing TDD 2830--
Their printing TDD 2830 has all the features of their compact TDD
plus the printer and a few other features.  They have 32 K
memory, personalized telephone directory with numbers you can
dial by pressing a button on the keyboard without typing them out
and a full-featured answering system that allows you to screen
incoming calls, store mesages and access messages remotely.
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To be continued....

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Subject: SHHH report 5 of 13
From: Karen.Keil@p0.f809.n104.z1.fidonet.org (Karen Keil)
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

Part 5 of the SHHH Convention --- Cedar Rapids, Iowa

More Exhibits, cont.
----------------------------

HITEC Group International, Inc.
8205 Cass Avenue
Suite 109
Darien, Il 60559
(708) 963-5588 v/tdd

A mail-order assistive devices store, who also produce their own
products like the item below.

They were celebrating their 10th anniversary by publishing 10th
anniversary catalogs and passing out hot pink yo-yos with their
logo.  Some of the other exhibitors were spotted yo-yoing with
those yo-yos!

Their video training tape, '9-1-1 The TDD and You', comes
complete with 4 video tapes and 4 workbooks.  It costs $399 plus
$6.50 shipping and covers 4 areas:

     Sensitivity Training
     Operation of TDD Equipment
     Recognizing and Responding to TDD Calls/Special Language
          Skills
     Situational Examples of Handling TDD Calls

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Ultratec
450 Science Drive
Madison, Wisconsin  53711
(608) 238-5400 (voice/tdd)

They had 5 types of items on display:

TDD pay phone
Superprint 400
Superprint II
Compact TDD
and the latest...

                AT (Accessible Telephone)

They have 4 models of AT Tdds....
AT 2000
AT 3000
AT 4000 (with 2 1/4 " wide paper printer)
AT 5000 (the only one with an extra wide paper printer)

The prices have not been set yet but it's in the range of
$300-$700.

     At first glance, they didn't look different, but they do.
They all have a telephone receiver attached to the TDD itself.
You can use it as a voice telephone using the receiver, dialing
numbers from the keyboard, or use it as a direct connect TDD,
typing on the keyboard!

     According to their brochure/flyer...."An Accessible
Telephone (AT) is a TDD built into the telephone making it fully
accessible to everyone who uses it."

     This makes it so you don't need a telephone and a TDD taking
up room on a table--it's all incorporated into one device.  Less
money, less clutter, more convenience.

Some features:
AT 4000

telephone features:
multiple voice output messages
memory dialing
last number redial
keyboard dialing
amplified handset
pleasant sounding ring

TDD features:
built-in, 24-character printer
three sizes of print
32 k memory
TDD voice announcer
auto-answer
remote message retrieval
4-row keyboard
20-character, blue/green display
AC adapter included
ASCII code (optional)
Clock-calendar (optional)

AT 5000
Telephone features:
same as AT 4000

TDD features:
Built-in, 40-character printer
programmable type sizes
built-in clock calendar
32k memory with message buffers
80-character, 2-line LCD display
53 key, typewriter-style keyboard
ASCII and Baudot codes
Automatic code detection
TDD voice announcer
auto-answer
programmable outgoing-messages
remote message retrieval
AC adapter
Voice and TDD answering (optional--special feature)

The Superprint 400 now has 8k memory with a phone directory,
remote message access and multiple messages answering.

The pay phone was demonstrated with information already told in
another post.

The Superprint II seems to be the same as last year.

Please write to them for more information on any of these things.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THEY ARE NO LONGER AT THE NORMANDY ADDRESS--SEE
THEIR NEW ADDRESS ABOVE.
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Subject: SHHH report 6 of 13
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

Part 6 of the SHHH Convention---Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Exhibits cont.

H.E.A.R
P.O. Box 460847
San Francisco, CA  94146

H.E.A.R.  stands for Hearing Education and Awareness for Rockers.

This is an interesting group.  Julia Rucker attended their
workshop so she may be able to tell us more about it.  It's a
non-profit corporation whose "mission is to prevent hearing loss
by promoting awareness of hearing issues and educating the public
about the nature of sound."  Even though they focus on the music
community, they also serve everyone else.  Many veteran rockers
support this group, among them Pete Townshend, Stephen Stills and
many others.  Many rockers have lost much of their hearing and
can't listen to music anymore, much less perform it live.

As part of their exhibit handouts is a reprint of an article from
VOICE Magazine, July/August 1990 issue, entitled, 'Only a Fool
Would Say That.'

---------------------------

Gallaudet University

They publish a quarterly magazine called Gallaudet Today, and
their Winter 1991-92 issue has articles about 'The Silent
Majority: Deafened Adults', a group who lost their hearing in
adulthood.

Subscription is $10.00 a year in the U.S. and $12 elsewhere.

Gallaudet Today
800 Florida Ave. NE
Washington, D. C. 20002-3695

-------------------------------------------

Harris Communications
6541 City West Parkway
Eden Prairie, MN 55344-3248

They had a booth of books and literature as well as assistive
devices.  I bought some books from them, which were:

Changing the Rules
by Frank Bowe
(1986)
T. J. Publishers, Inc.
817 Silver Spring Avenue, 206
Silver Spring, Maryland 20910
Autobiographical account of a deaf man who grew up to change the
rules enabling disabled people opportunities to make the most of
their lives in employment, etc.  He became deaf at the age of 3
and was mainstreamed in the public schools before there was such
a term.  He furthered his education to the level of a doctorate.

How You Gonna Get To Heaven If You Can't talk With Jesus:  On
Depathologizing Deafness
by James Woodward  (1982)
T. J. Publishers (see above)
A collection of research papers written by a professor of
Linguistics at Gallaudet College.  The title is definitely
unusual!

Speak to Me!
by Marcia Calhoun Forecki
(1985 with updated 1989 epilogue)
Gallaudet University Press
Washington, D. C. 20002
About a single and divorced mother raising a profoundly deaf
son--true story--very good--enlightening with a parent's view.

They had many interesting books, but knowing that I would have to
pack all that in my luggage prevented me from buying any more!
Their books and videotapes catalog is a gold mine of information,
with such titles as AT HOME AMONG STRANGERS, A DEAF ADULT SPEAKS
OUT, LIVING WITH A HEARING PROBLEM, etc..

They even carry an item, The Holy Bible:  English Version for the
Deaf!

-------------------------------

Zenith Consumer Electronics
1000 Milwaukee Avenue
Glenview, Illinois  60025

They featured their closed-captioned TVs.  I asked them if they
have yet the feature to change the size of the captions from
large to regular and vice versa and they said no.  I told them I
got my Zenith TV in part from seeing the exhibit at the 1991
convention.

They showed a VCR that has caption decoder capability, but the
only information on this is a mention in their catalogue:

'Zenith's commitment to Closed Captioning does not end with TV
sets.  The VR2218CC is the first VCR with the helpful circuitry
built in.  It decodes and displays the Closed Captions using any
television."

'Zenith also offers a VCR with a built-in CC decoder that will
work with any TV set, even one without a built-in decoder.'

-------------------------------------

Silent Word Media Resources
7400 W. Augusta, Box 24S
River Forest, IL  630305-1499

This organization can caption your video tape for you.  They will
request a master copy of the tape and a script of the spoken
dialogue.  The script can either be provided by you or they will
transcribe one.  The script is entered into the captioning
computer. After a series of proofreadings, the captions are
encoded onto a copy of the master.

They also produce their own tapes and have a lending library for
you to rent tapes from.  They offer many other services as well.
Their mission is to according to their brochure:
--to 'bridge the gap' between media and the hearing impaired
--to promote awareness of all disability situations
--to enhance the lives of people through the use of media

What intrigued me is their association with my religious
denomination, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod--via sign
languages classes and religious videos they produce for the
Synod.  That is just one of the things they do--they do much more
in other areas for other people and groups, too.

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ITS
(Interactive Training System)

Software that you use on the computer to help you learn to listen
to words.  This software will be available (scheduled to be)
September 1992.  They had a computer to demonstrate it and you
listen to the word and point to a picture for that word, e.g.
banana.

It can be adapted for individual needs, and it uses games as
lessons.  It has been tested and it works in enhancing speech and
reading skills for the hearing-impaired who use hearing aids,
cochlear implants or tactile devices.

Breakthrough, Inc.
131 Technology Innovation Center
Oakdale, Iowa 52319

319-335-4486
1-800-874-2851

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That's all that was interesting and new (to me) in the exhibits!
(That is, it's time to move on to other things...)

To be continued....

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