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>>Wade: Hi. I'm Wade Wingler with the Indata Project at Easter Seals Crossroads in Indiana.
You know a lot of folks are using mobile phones for lots of things these days.
But, some folks still are using regular old landline phones. Carol is going
to show us a couple of phones from Clarity that are easier to hear and easier to use.
>>Carol: Hello. My name is Carol Girt, the equipment loan specialist for the INDATA library.
Phones seem to be an issue these days. People who are hard of hearing
can't talk on the phone because they can't hear. I have two phones here from Clarity.
One is the Alto Plus. Take the handset off. This is the Alto, I'm sorry. And this is the
Alto Plus. It has the this is like your numbers will show up on here and any
questions, any operations that will show up on here. The really, really neat thing
about these two phones. And I'm going to show you the back of it and the bottom. We have
a plug here for a bed shaker which is on of those vibrating things that can help
you wake up in the morning or help you wake up when the telephone calls. And a
second one is a headset and this one is for T loop for your hearing aids. And on the bottom
of here and on the bottom of both of these phones we have how you can
set your tone or your pulse for the dialing, voicemai-you can set your voicemail
appropriately, if you want to know when your missed calls are-the boost override and the
boost, I'm going to turn this over again is this button that will boost the sound
coming through the handset to 50 decibles. 25 decibles is about the loudest
we normally hear. And the last piece on the bottom, there's one more, is voice assist
on or off. And what that means is when you touch a key, you can hear it through the
handset and just your normal ear. So, that may help you dial appropriately.
We have all the normal fuctions of the telephone. You can adjust the volume here. Or like we
said you can hit the boost button. You have 3 numbers that you can put in memory.
And your delete and memory buttons and enter buttons are all right here. Pardon me.
Your numbers are on a black background. White letters on a black background and this one
comes with plastic overlays so that you can put braille numbers on here. This
red area down here will flash when you have a telephone call coming in. That's pretty
much what both of these telephones do. The only difference is that this has the caller
ID on it. The run, this one runs about a $179 and this one about $159. I've seen
them a little lower than that on the Internet. But, they are both very powerful
phones for the moderate to severe hearing and a person who has some vision. issues.
Thank you. >>Wade: So, that's a handy way to stay in
touch with the people who are important to you. That's your tech tip for this week.
I'm Wade Wingler with the INDATA Project at Easter Seals Crossroads in Indiana.