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In touch with real progress

Phoning a bank, visiting the doctor, ordering a pizza, or dealing with tradesmen – these are the tasks which most of us take for granted, but for deaf people they can be a mountainous challenge.

In the past, deaf people who needed to communicate over the phone had two choices – hire a sign language interpreter, or use a system commonly known as Typetalk.

The former is expensive, and can be slow to arrange.