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Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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deed, at thistime A.T.&T. has already established acentralized pool of knowledge about whathas been done locally in the OperatingCompanies to assist such people. Phase Three is to assess the con-clusions of present and future studies andresearch on what equipment is now avail-able and what is needed and then de-velop additional equipment where theneed is indicated. The results of thisphase of the program are probably sev-eral years away from being concrete interms of equipment. But the research hasalready been initiated; for example, aBell System grant is currently enablingDr. Howard Rusk of the Institute ofPhysical Medicine and Rehabilitation ofNew York University Bellevue MedicalCenter in studies of how Bell Systemequipment can be adapted to aid thosewith motion handicaps and how we canbest design more such equipment. Thisproject, in which Bell System people willbe collaborating will allow patients them-selves to test the equipment. We arealso initiating studies which attempt to
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U (//(// (CISC receiver enables third person to monitor telephone call and repeat inconuni^message so that a deaf person can lip read and still participate in the conversation. 28 find out what kinds of equipment aremost effective for different types ofspeech and hearing handicaps as well aswhat is additionally needed. Speaking and Hearing Developing the right kind of tools tohelp compensate for speaking and hear-ing deficiencies requires detailed knowl-edge of the physical speaking and hear-ing processes, of course. Each process isremarkable. For instance, talking, with all its im-portance, is a secondary skill: all of theorgans involved in speech have otherprimary functions. The organs in themouth and throat, first of all, are in-volved in breathing, chewing, swallowingand keeping things out of our lungs thatdont belong there. And yet they work to-gether as a team to carry out the second-ary function of speaking. The sound of speech is caused by aseries of organic functions, startin

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