A New Civil Right: Telecommunications Equality for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Americans
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (840 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1563682915 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Karen Peltz Strauss is a telecommunications policy consultant in Washington, DC.
Pioneering Work! This book is a bridge and must read for advocates of civil rights and champions of the deaf and hard of hearing community. With great detail and insight, Karen walks her readers through pioneering communications developments and demonstrates their connection to the basic right to "hear and be heard." Well done!B. K. Fulton. "Extraordinary piece of work on telecommunications access" according to Daddy of Two. If you have ever considered the struggles of hearing-impaired people in securing access to basic telecommunications, you owe it to yourself to read this book. In fact, if you're just looking for a good story about the hard work of decent Americans who fought against all odds to improve the quality of life for millions of people, you will enjoy reading "A New Civil Right." Though it features a fast-paced narrat. "Excellent Resource!" according to C. M. Boryslawskyj. Very depth and comprehensive about telecommunication for Deaf and hard of hearing community. Long tedious to read but worth learning what they have had through their real life to experience with TTY, videophone and other devices.
About the AuthorKaren Peltz Strauss is a telecommunications policy consultant in Washington, DC.
Throughout this comprehensive account, she emphasizes the grassroots efforts behind all of the eventual successes. It took exhaustive campaigning to establish 711 for nationwide relay dialing, while universal access to television captioning required diligent legal and legislative work to pass the Decoder Circuitry Act in 1990. When three deaf men in the 1960s invented and sold TTYs, the first teletypewriting devices that allowed deaf people to communicate by telephone, they started a telecommunications revolution for deaf people throughout America. The same persistence resulted in the enactment of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which required all off-the-shelf communications equipment, including new wireless technology, to be readily accessible to deaf users.. A New Civil Right recounts each advance in turn, such as the pursuit of special customer premises equipment (SCPE) from telephone companies; the Telecommunications Act of 1982 and the Telecommunications Accessibility Enhancement Act of 1988 and the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, which required nationwide relay telephone services for deaf and hard of hearing users.Strauss painstakingly details how all of these advances occurred incrementally, first on local and state levels, and later through federal law. A New Civil Right: Telecommunications Equality for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Americans chronicles the hist