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Deaf Benefit Greatly from SMS

Posted by TimSlavin at October 18, 2004

"Research out of Australian universities on text-based mobile messaging could herald good news for the deaf in the United States—if cellular carriers can agree to improve interoperability between networks.

A joint research project between Australia's Bond and Griffith universities has found the deaf community is a major beneficiary of the mobile text-messaging craze. In Australia, more than 50 percent of the general population sends at least one text message a day. The result is a nearly universal, text-based communications medium that connects the deaf to the hearing world."

From Wired. You can buy the full report from Oxford University Press for $17 USD.
URLs:

http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,65363,00.html


http://deafed.oupjournals.org/cgi/reprint/9/3/333

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