Wayne.Roorda@f14.n385.z1.fidonet.org (Wayne Roorda) (10/18/90)
Index Number: 11179
[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]
In the October 22, 1990 issue of INSIGHT magazine in the
Health Briefing column on page 60, by Dina Van Pelt an
article titled "Videos Teach Patients About Home Care".
I'll quote the entire article as written and then ask
a couple of questions.
"To Help patients with chronic illinesses to care for themselves
once they leave the hospital, a California company has produced
three videos that address self-care, mental coping and family
support.
"It has always been intended that one of the main functions of
nurses and other hospital staff is to educate and inform patients
[about home care]," according to Peter Greenberg, a spokesman for
AftaCare Communications Inc. of Newport Beach. "But unfortutnately,
that patient education function of hospitals has been one of the
hardest-hit financially."
The programs, the first to be released in a 13-part series, are
titled "At Home with Heart Disease," "At Home with Cancer" and
" AT Home with Diabetes." They cover medications and how to take
them, what to expect in terms of emotions and what kinds of life-
style changes may ensue."
So far so good. But, does anyone know the address and/or telephone
number of this firm? What are the distribution channels? Have
these tapes been reviewed for ease of speechreading? Are they
close captioned? My concern is that if the tapes haven't been
processed for any of the above they will not be of much benefit
to those who would probably need them the most.
Comments anyone?
Wayne
BTW this has been cross posted in ABLED and SilentTalk.
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Internet: Wayne.Roorda@f14.n385.z1.fidonet.orgAnn.Stalnaker@p0.f14.n385.z1.fidonet.org (Ann Stalnaker) (10/23/90)
Index Number: 11228
[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
Wayne, do you know if these tapes are distributed only to health
agencies or are they being distributed for video rental?
I would think since they are on health related subjects that they
would be closed-captioned. I think the medical institutions are
breaking the communication barriers by providing TDD accessibility
and captioned videos, at least they are here in Oklahoma. We have
a weekly show that is aired by the physicians in Lawton to discuss
matters of health care in specific fields (there's a different
topic each week) and the show is closed-captioned. It never ceases
to amaze me that they can convince our local station to caption this
show but we, the HI population, can't seem to convince them the local
news needs to be captioned. Guess we need to do some protesting
and picketing. Ah...where's my broomstick? (grin)
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Internet: Ann.Stalnaker@p0.f14.n385.z1.fidonet.orgJack.O'keeffe@f26.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Jack O'keeffe) (10/26/90)
Index Number: 11322
[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]
AS> I would think since they are on health related subjects that
AS> they would be closed-captioned. I think the medical
AS> institutions are breaking the communication barriers by
AS> providing TDD accessibility and captioned videos, at least they
AS> are here in Oklahoma.
Well I'm happy for Oklahoma, Annie, but you can't assume that the
consideration for captioning is universal. Yesterday at our SHHH
meeting the speaker was a PhD Audiologist talking about assistive
devices. He was quite a good presenter, relaxed and a sense of
humor, and with good solid information. He showed a videotape
featuring Nanette Fabray (remember her?) demonstrating assistive
devices. The video was produced by House, one of the most highly
regarded institutions for hearing disorders. Was it captioned?
HELL NO! What a waste.
... Jack.
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