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International cooperation - but how?

Seifu, Michael. 2004. International cooperation - but how?

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by Michael Seifu (rahelmu2000@yahoo.com), Ethiopia, May 2004

A View from Ethiopia

Seifu, Michael. 2004. A View from Ethiopia.

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by Michael Seifu (rahelmu2000@yahoo.com), Ethiopia, February 2004

Expansion of Telephone Service For Many People With Speech Disabilities

Segalman, Bob. 2000. Expansion of Telephone Service For Many People With Speech Disabilities.

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If you have a speech disability and live in one of the thirteen states listed below, you can now use a new, free telephone assistance service 24 hours a day. Speech-to-Speech (STS) provides communications assistants (CAs) for people with difficulty being understood by the public on the telephone.

People with speech disabilities can dial toll free to reach a patient, trained CA who is familiar with many speech patterns and has excellent language recognition skills. This CA makes telephone calls for them and repeats their words exactly.

People with Speech Disabilities Now Have a Telephone Service

Segalman, Bob. 1999. People with Speech Disabilities Now Have a Telephone Service.

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If you have a speech disability and live in : ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA, MARYLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA, WISCONSIN, GEORGIA, and WASHINNGTON STATE, you can now use a new, free telephone assistance service 24 hours a day.

This service, called Speech-to-Speech, provides human voicers for people with difficulty being understood by the public on the telephone. The FCC expects all states to provide Speech-to-Speech in two years.

If you have a speech disability, you can dial toll free to reach a patient, trained operator who is familiar with many speech patterns and has acute hearing. This operator makes telephone calls for you and repeats your words exactly.

Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract

Russell, Marta. 1998. Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract.

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Book review courtesy of Common Courage Press

"What Ralph Nader did for the consumer movement...Marta Russell has accomplished in her riveting Beyond Ramps. No one who reads this book...will come away unchanged."

- Marcus Raskin, Institute for Policy Studies

Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract

Marta Russell
256 pages; Index
PAPER $18.95, ISBN: 1-56751-106-6

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