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� teIcp . ustry, • the
approximately SS million·
's cost be • be-
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DO •• ooal COlt to the COD-
SUDler.
other form of keyboard. The .
hearing or speech-impaired
petIOIl d call a toll-free
number, an operator ould
cxmncd the caller to
perIOD they
tbch
DUAL-PARTY RELAY SYSTEM
OR HOW TO ORDER A PIZZA IF
YOU'RE HEARING IMPAIRED
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"We re a n billion com­
pany,. McDonnell said. "The
Public Service Commission . d
just rb it into your cost of
doing busi ."
McDonnell said telephone
companies may ctually have
more busin thaD before, as
persons with hearinl and
speech impairmeDls now will
have access by pboae to frieads
and familywbo could DOt afford
a TOD, which a COlt amiaimum
ofSI60.
The system Uwohe a
relay tio staffed • pe­
cially trained operators with
perso al- co p era, or some
LANSING - It . e
and you are craYinga large pizza
with extra chee e,pepperoni,
and mu hrooms. It' simple
enough, right? All you do· pick .
up the phone and. call your
favorite pizza p ceo
. The problem is are per-
son with a hearing or speech im­
pairment, and though you have
a telecommunicatio device
for the deaf (TDD), the pizza
place doesn't. You can their
p one to ring, b t yo can't
p - ce your order unless one of
your hearing friends will make
the call for you.
This problem will be over in
I than 14 months en the
- statewide dual-party relay sys­
tem for those with hearing and
peech impairments' imple­
mented. The sy tem ould
alla persons ·th hearing and
speech impairments to use their
TDD to communicate with
people and businesses who do
not own TOO .
The TDD invented in
1964. It is a keyboard cbed
to the phone that all those
with hearjog or speech impair-
men to type their m e,
long there is another TDD to
receive it.
THE SYSTEM will n cost
telep one users ·even 0 e-tenth
of a cent more a oath, • c­
cording to . Michigan Bell
division manager,
Mike McDonnell, relay sys­
tem dVisory panel ember for
Give yo r home something extra.
F( r A1< r(' intc rmation, ·top in '" ny ( '( t OUH-()flVl"" �t
ott, (�( rphon '1-8(X)-CAll-M B.At . 'hi�ln lltionai,"w ,'r'
doing wtklt itt, ( to "p ou giv 'y( ur horne thing -xtra.
itt
calling.
The operator would then ct
as a ·translator.· The operator
ould talk to the hearing per­
son, while typing b ck what the
hearing person . d through the
keyboard.
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p n I
I The 'deadJine for entering
the American Poetr7
Association' contest is June
30, The contest is open to
everyone and entry i free.
Grand Prize i SI,OOO and
First Ptize is SSOO. There are
152 prize orth SII,OOO in
all.
"This contest j dedicated
to discovenng new and un­
known poets," said Robert
Nelson, publisher for tbe as­
sociation. ·You do not have to
be a professional poet to in. "
Poet . may send one
orig.naI poem, DO more tban
20 lines, name and addres on
the top of the page, to
American PoetrY Association.
Dept. CO-SS, 250-A Potrero
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ope July I,
Poems are iudged on
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ins·
Each poem j al 0 COD- .
sidered for publication in the
American Poetry - AnthololY,
a coUedio of contemporary
verse.
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on
imp
service.·
McDonne said the Public
Serivce Co . ion ordered
the telephon industrt_ tC!' have
- the system up and I'WlIling in 1$
months.
Pat Cannon, e ecutive
director of the Michigan Com­
mission on Handicap r Con­
'cerns, said the syste may be
operating by July 1991. t
-Sy next Independence Day,
hearing impaired people may
no longer have to depend on a
hearing person to make their
phone calls," Cannon . d,
Michigan· not the first ate
. to implement the dual-relay sys­
.. tem. California is the oldeSt ys­
tem, and Kansas just recently
implemented the du arty
I
o
em.
McDonnell said I . .
pending t the federallC'flel may
make the system mandatory,
"If the ADA (American with
DSsabilitiea Act) there
wiD ha to be kind of' -
orked out,
too," McDonnell -d.
McDonnell . d the acMlOI'Y
committee· planning for the
dual-party rel y sy tem to
receive about 100,000 pho e
calls a month, based on other
tates' xperience. Michigan
Bell, or third party Michigan
Bell may hire to run the em
will hir� be en 100 to SOO
operators.
"The rvicc will be niIab e
seven days a week 24 hours .
day," McDonnell aid. ·We
(Michigan Bell) uld lik� to
run it, but it will come down to
hoever can erve our cus­
tomers best, for the least
amoUD of money.·
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