Services For The Disabled

A complete list of such services would be difficult to assemble, especially as new ones are being invented all the time, and as old services are being delivered in new ways. It may be easier to divide the services by the disability that they help overcome:

Services for the blind:

--- Guide Dog s being admitted to buildings, buses, trains and other locations that pets are not allowed.

---Reserving the use of a White Cane to Blind individuals only.

---Using Mobile Phone Camera s to take pictures of change after a transaction, so that it can be counted by a sighted person who verifies by tone or voice that the change is correct.

---Translation of new works into Braille or Talking Book s, or the use of Text-to-speech translators.

--Availability of these in a Public Library and other public institutions, and in a Boot Image configured for use for a disabled person.

Services for the visually-impaired:

--- Large Font books

---Basic Operating System and Boot Image configuration utilities that set computers up with large bold fonts and high-contrast colour combination Desktop Schemes .

Services for the hearing-impaired:

---Admission of Hearing Aid s to locations where recording and transmitting devices are not normally permitted.

--- TTY terminals for telephones.

--- Video Relay Service s

--- Closed Caption ing on Television .

--- Sign Language Interpreting

--- Oral Transliteration

Services for the mobility-impaired:

The Americans With Disabilities Act Of 1990 was a landmark U.S. Federal Government move towards providing services for the disabled in a uniform way all across the country. That legislation has been widely copied in other countries.

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	HEALTH & PERSONAL
	HOME & GARDEN
	JEWELRY
	MUSIC
	MUSIC INSTRUMENTS
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	SOFTWARE
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	TOOLS & HARDWARE
	TOYS
	VIDEO GAMES
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