RE: 911:: Hearing Impaired

[Guest guest]

Toni is now at PRC out of the San Francisco Office and I'm sure Annette is

correct, APCO would have a contact e-mail or phone number for her.

[Guest guest]

Rose,

Might try Toni Dunne. She works extensively with the hearing impaired in

Texas and has written numerous articles to APCO Magazine and was/is the

chair for APCO international ADA committee. The last I knew, you could

reach her at toni.dunne@...

If not, then contact APCO, they might know where she can be reached.

annette hallmark

ahallmark@...

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Our citizen is hearing impaired and concerned that hearing impaired members

of the community have no way to be notified when severe weather is

approaching. She carries an alpha-numeric pager which could send her email,

however, she also said many of the hearing impaired can't afford the high

cost of alpha-numeric pagers. She believes there is a program in Texas that

is set up to notify the hearing impaired. I did check with our county civil

defense director who is not aware of any device similar to a weather radio

which can notify hearing impaired of threatening weather. According to the

woman I talked to this morning, there is a significant hearing impaired

population in the area. She guessed that in the Mpls/St area of MN

there are approximately 500,000 people who would be affected.

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