This technology is available for people with profound hearing loss or poor speech recognition ability. To access telephone service to communicate with a person who will be using a TTY or Voice Carry Over (VCO) telephone, a hearing person who will be speaking calls 1-800-855-0511. A person who will be typing on a TTY will call 1-800-267-6511. There is no charge for local calls.
- TTY machines are available at each main site.
- At Parkwood Institute, an FM system and personal amplifiers are available from Audiology.
- Telephones for patients with vision and hearing impairments are available through Information Technology Services.
- All patient telephones have volume controls.