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Record information – Brief To Help Themselves
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1968Item number (ISN):214001Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:BELL CANADAAccession:1979-0192Media:FilmPart:1 of 1Production date:1968Production company:American Telephone and Telegraph CompanyDescription:Documentary film illustrating the specially adapted telephones currently under development for use by handicapped and disabled people. [Joy Cawdrey], an occupational therapist at the New York Medical Centre, talks with disabled patients and counsels them on the specially modified telephones available for their use. Shown is a high school football game and a young girl who suffers from hearing loss using a telephone with amplified volume. Includes sequences on: deaf people using modified telephones at work; a bedridden young boy using the School at Home service over the telephone; a man using an electronic larnyx that generates sound waves to communicate; a blind person demonstrating automatic dialing telephones; and a person in a wheelchair illustrating the inconvenience of a conventional phone booth as well as the newly-designed coin telephones. <12mn>Language:EnglishNotes:Detailed holdings information: -
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