title: Enabling two women with blindness and additional disabilities to make phone calls independently via a computer-aided telephone system.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess whether two women with blindness and additional disabilities could make independent phone calls through a computer-aided telephone system.
  
  
  METHODS
  For each participant, the study involved an ABAB design, in which the A represented baseline phases and the B represented intervention phases with the special telephone system (involving among others a net-book computer with specific software, a global system for mobile communication modem and a microswitch).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Both participants learned to use the system and made phone calls independently to a variety of partners such as family members, friends and staff personnel.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The system assessed in this study might represent a useful means for enabling persons with blindness and additional disabilities to manage phone calls on their own.
authors.affiliation: University of Bari, Italy. g.lancioni@psico.uniba.it
authors.forename: Giulio E
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Lancioni
authors.forename: Mark F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: O'Reilly
authors.forename: Nirbhay N
authors.initials: NN
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: Doretta
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Oliva
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001766:Blindness / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D003142:Communication; D003143:Communication Devices for People with Disabilities; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013689:Telephone