Phone offers aid
for disabled

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Star-Bulletin staff

Robert Segalman, founder of Speech-to-Speech Relay, which enables people with speech disabilities to use a telephone, will demonstrate the system at 3 p.m. tomorrow at Assistive Technology Resource Centers of Hawaii, 414 Kuwili St., Suite 104.

The service allows people to make a telephone call that normally would not be possible, with his or her own voice, voice synthesizer, voice enhancer or electro larynx.

A call is relayed from one party to the other by a communication assistant specially trained to understand the speech of those with disabilities.

About 11,000 islanders have speech disabilities making it difficult or impossible to talk on the telephone, said Barbara Fischlowitz-Leong, executive director of the Resource Centers, stressing the system's benefits.

For more information, call 532-7110 or see www.stsnews.com.