Do not forget the hearing impaired!

"Warnings elude hearing impaired

By Chris Vaccaro, USATODAY.com (read full article here)

"Go to the closet now!" a TV weathercaster warned residents of Edmond, Okla., when a tornado was about to hit. David Harman was watching, but he was able to understand only one key thing that day in May 1986. It saved his life.

"I could lip-read a TV weatherman," Harman, who is deaf, wrote in an e-mail to USATODAY.com. "I got one word — closet."

Harman sought shelter and lived to tell his story today. But a recent study shows that deaf and hearing-impaired Americans are still missing alerts for severe weather. They are at greater risk than people who can hear weather broadcasts and tornado sirens."

 

Since the need of warning system expanded to much more than weather and every education institute has one, Alerting Solution has added the Sign Language warning tools to its arsenal of warning delivery mechnism. A CAPCon, connected to a TV or LCD screen, interrupts normal display to include not only the text and the audio, but a person "reading" the warning and instruction in body language. ASI is proud to use Signtel, Inc. software that proved to be the "Text to Sign Language" equivalent of the "Text to Speech" that is so common today.

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