New Solutions to Old Problems: Telecommunications for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Employees.

Diane Castle. Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), Campus Connections Bookstore, 48 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623-5604. Telephone: [phone] (voice), 475-7071 (TTY). $2.

This booklet offers a current, comprehensive, and practical overview of telecommunication options for deaf and hard-of-hearing employees.

"In recent years, telecommunication options have expanded tremendously beyond the standard voice phone and even the standard text telephone TTY)," reports the author, Dr. Diane Castle, audiology professor at NTID, a college of Rochester Institute of Technology. "Such changes have enabled deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing employees and customers to communicate with one another."

This booklet describes creative uses of rapidly changing technologies in visual telecommunications that can be crucial for deaf employees and helpful to some hard-of-hearing employees. It also includes information about federal legislation that focuses on telecommunications as well as other areas of access.

NTID, one of RIT's eight colleges, is the world's largest technological college for deaf students. Created by Congress, NTID represents the world's first effort to educate large numbers of deaf students within a college campus planned primarily for hearing students. Among RIT's 13,000 full- and part-time students are nearly 1,100 deaf students from the United States and other countries who study and reside on the RIT campus.