Speech Amplified Telephone

On the phone, how different would Joan's Hi-tech one (or the one you have used, Lylia) be from the *free* ones you can get through the state/federal programs (beginning with your own local phone company...see my message to Katrina a few days ago).

When I attended the massive "Technology and Persons with Disabilities Convention" in Los Angeles last March, I tried out some amplified phones and there seems to be alot of variety in the *free* category. When I spoke to Joan the day before she left for LA for her surgery, she had not yet tried out her new phone...otherwise, I would ask her. But, she's in surgery so her assessment may have to wait a bit.

Colleen...do a web search on "Morinda" or "Tahitian Noni Juice." The info will come flooding in at that point. It is marketed by an MLM organization and was not available at GNC or retail-wise the last I checked. That's normally the way all MLM-distributor companies work. Tons of info on the Internet though. I'm ordering it also. You could also write to Doug, who put the original message on the BB (or, if you write to me, I don't think he would mind if I gave you the distributor license number and phone number that he gave me - you could order it through that). Otherwise...you could also look in your local Yellow Pages under Health Food (or something like that). I've found distributors of various products (no Noni, unfortunately) under that category in my area; and, if you find one near where you live, you could just go pick it up rather than having it shipped. Good luck.

Yes! Great to hear from you again since you were at Peggy's in the early stages of recovery from Berke-surgery and the four of us were chit-chatting away!!! Ha-ha :)) Good to know you are recovering well.

Here is the clip I wrote to Katrina Lantz about the free amplifier phones 2 or 3 days ago under the thread "ABductor SD":
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~~~ Oops...tried 3 times. Cut-and-paste failed. How weird. That's never happened to me. Must be missing something. Help, David. Help, Lloyd! ~~~~
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Anyway, read to the bottom of that BB thread for instructions. By Federal Law, all US phone companies have to provide special phone equipment to qualified disabled people. They provide free equipment to amplify the voice if your doc qualifies you. TDD. Special Equipment is NOT just for deaf-people!! It's for people who have no volume in speaking also. I tried out several of the free devices at both the "Technology and Persons with Disabilities" Convention in LA in March and also the ASHA Convention (American Speech and Hearing Association) last November in San Francisco.

My question to you (and to Joan, when she arrives home) is...how do the *free* amplifying phones compare with the ones people pay for? It's possible that the Hi-tech (brand) phone Joan bought is a better quality but...who knows until we try and compare, right? If they're the same, no reason for folks to spring for the $100 when they have the right to get a free one. It would be good if people could try the free ones first before they lay out extra money for one which might be more "Hi-tech" (as the company name implies) but maybe no better. :)

I'll try to paste the message to Katrina into your personal e-mail. won't Joan be pleased to know we are waiting for her assessment!! Hey Joan, get that whisper going on your new phone so we can figure this whole thing out.

--Lynne

I have a few ideas but I think it's best we chit-chat re these on private e-mail. Write me on "L7martinez@aol.com" or I will try to write you after I dig out from under some other things I'm buried under in the next couple of days. When we figure this out (because I believe your issue of working with your company's phone system...but meeting your own needs as well) is extremely important to many of us, we should both re-post to this BB.

Write me.

Best wishes

As I said to your private e-mail, it is definitely one of those things where you (we) have to take the "bull by the horns" and do our own research and present it to the authorities (or bureaucracy...or whatever we should call them). If we wait for them to do it for us, it will take forever. Fortunately, there is so much info out on this BB that it's faster to get educated on these devices or sources or processes than it used to be so glad to be of help in your quest!

Congratulations! Now you've helped to educate those folks in your college-community in Omaha who you have to work with everyday. Good for you! Did you get a chance to pick up the info on the SpectrumVP Speech Enhancer that I sent you? That could help also in a different way. Was it that website or another one? I'm very curious.