The California Public Utilities Commission voted Thursday to broaden its Deaf and...
The California Public Utilities Commission voted Thursday to broaden its Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program. The CPUC followed legislative encouragement to begin a proceeding to modify the program, “to institute rules and procedures that will govern the provision of speech…
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generating devices to qualified individuals” and allow people with speech disabilities to make calls to 911 and other telecom services, the CPUC said of the approved proposal (http://bit.ly/Yc7mmz). It suggested a staggered timeline in how it would go about deploying these devices, with interim rules in place by Jan. 1 and final ones later. During the first phase of interim rules, the CPUC hopes to work directly with speech language pathologists on how to get the devices to the right people, it said. The commission noted that a second phase would address any issues it hadn’t looked at and may move toward “expanding speech generating device distribution to those who have not yet been assessed for a speech generating device."