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Article: Plus sign for deaf people
- Article from:
- Bristol Evening Post
- Article date:
- January 9, 2002
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TECHNOLOGY developed in Bristol is being used to provide a
pioneering service that allows deaf people to communicate more
easily with health workers.
Videophones from Aust company Motion Media are being used to make
a sign language interpretation service more accessible and less
expensive.
The service has been developed by the Leicester Centre for Deaf
People, working with videoconferencing and telehealth consultancy
Sumlock 2000.
The new service means that when a deaf person arrives at a surgery
or hospital participating in the scheme, the GP, consultant or nurse
will make a voice call to a coordinator who will arrange, if
necessary, for an interpreter to contact them via videophone.
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