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Past
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Present
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Future
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| Depended on hearing for phone calls. |
TTY, Video relay, IP relay, wireless pagers and Instant messaging. |
Communicate through wireless video, anywhere you go. |
| Air travelers uninformed. |
Safety videos on airplanes must be captioned. Airports must have visual text displays. |
Captioned in-flight movies, accessible in-flight communication devices. Captioning turned on at all airport TVs. |
| ASL called a system of gestures. |
ASL now recognized as a language. |
Universal use of bilingualism (ASL and English). |
| Hearing loss often identified in children after 3-years old. |
90% of infants’ hearing loss is identified within 6 months of birth. |
All families of deaf and hard of hearing infants are immediately referred to early intervention programs and services. |
| Poor communication access technologies. |
Captions, amplifiers, pagers and video phones are now available. |
Affordable technology that individuals, businesses and schools can use anywhere, anytime. |
| No captions on television. |
100 % captioning for TV programs, effective January 1, 2006. |
Captions on all videos, internet, cell phones, DVDs, video games, iPod, and other media. |
| Political TV ads are not captioned. |
U.S. presidential candidates who receive federal funding must provide captioning for their television ads. |
All political ads (local, state, federal representatives) are captioned. |
| Movies are not captioned. |
Limited movies are captioned. |
Captioned movies anytime, anywhere. |
| Poor access to education. |
Educational institutions must provide interpreters and CART. |
Enjoy uninhibited language and communication access at school. |
| Employers refused to hire deaf and hard of hearing people. |
Employers cannot discriminate on the basis of deafness. |
More deaf people are regularly promoted to managerial positions and many own businesses. |
| No access to health care services. |
Health care services must provide access. |
3-D Hologram on-demand interpreters at all medical facilities. |
| Landlords refused to rent apartments to deaf. |
Landlords must allow deaf tenants. |
All apartments come with built-in visual smoke alarms and flashing doorbells. |
| Hotels had no accommodations. |
Hotels must provide TTYs and visual smoke alarms. |
Communication technology such as videophones in each hotel or motel room. |
| Lawyers refused to hire interpreters. |
Lawyers must provide interpreters and other accommodations. |
Lawyers immediately accept deaf and hard of hearing clients and provide full range of accommodations. |
| No access to emergency information. |
Emergency captioning required. |
All emergency information is sent to a variety of communication devices, even when away from the computer. |
| Young children interpreted for their parents. |
We now have standards for professional interpreters. |
Quality interpreters available on demand anywhere, anytime. |
