Wireless Communication for the Deaf:
February 10th, 2002
CamWorld also references an article on how Deaf and hard of hearing people in the UK are adopting SMS text messaging. I worked at Gallaudet University (the university for the Deaf and hard of hearing) from ‘96 to ‘99. During that time, Skytel pagers became very popular in the Deaf community because not only did they allow users to send text pages back and forth between Skytel subscribers, but send and receive email as well. Much better than SMS! And the Deaf community (at Gallaudet at least) was hooked into this wireless technology way before cell phones were standard in the hearing community.