Hello Deaf Community members/Members,

The Deaf Wireless Canada Committee (DWCC) and the Canadian Association of the Deaf (CAD-ASC) are back with a new survey (to find out if others are having the same issues as our Committee members) and we need your participation.

This is an urgent request as the survey is only open for a limited time. The deadline isDecember 28, 2016.

The reason for this is the Deaf Wireless Canada Consultative Committee(DWCC), and theCanadian Association of the Deaf (CAD-ASC), along with Canadian National Society of the Deaf-Blind (CNSDB) will be facing the CRTC again in January 2017. More information about this proceeding and the Agenda is available at the bottom of this e-mail.

Come join and participate in the survey for Text with 911! We value our Deaf community people’s lives and safety; the survey is important for us to show that perhaps change needs to be made.

Please help and share the survey to your friends and family too! FORWARD and SHARE this e-mail!

[IMAGE DESCRIPTION] Banner with two hands holding a black iphone on the left side and it has red screen with “911 emergency call” with white phone icon. Then on black gradient background on the right side, all in yellow font: “TEXT with 9-1-1, TEXTO au 9-1-1; SURVEY, SONDAGE; DECEMBER 14-28; Du 14 au 28 decembre”. Universal sign for mobile phone in between SURVEY and SONDAGE.

Thank you,

~ Lisa Anderson-Kellett, Chairperson/CAD-ASC Director at Large: Wireless

on behalf of the Deaf Wireless Canada Consultative Committee (DWCC)

http://www.deafwireless.ca/

ps. The CRTC proceeding (hearing) topic is exploring the issues around Next-Generation 9-1-1 services in Canada. To read more about this proceeding, you can click this link: CRTC TNC 2016-116. Exact date is January 19, 2017.  To see the proceeding Agenda, see Thursday.

Hello DWCC Members,

Thank you for helping us distribute the last Deaf Wireless Survey in 2015. The Final report is available here.

We are back with another survey we need your help with distribution to get more people to participate in the survey. This is an urgent request as the survey is only open for a limited time. The deadline is December 28, 2016.

The Deaf Wireless Canada Consultative Committee(DWCC), and theCanadian Association of the Deaf (CAD-ASC), along with Canadian National Society of the Deaf-Blind (CNSDB) will be facing the CRTC again in January 2017.

Exact date is January 19, 2017. You may wish to view the Agenda

The CRTC proceeding (hearing) topic is exploring the issues around Next-Generation 9-1-1 services in Canada. To read more about this proceeding, you can click this link: CRTC TNC 2016-116

Our Committee developed a new survey to find out if others are having the same issues as our Committee members and friends in the Community.

Questions included cover topics such as:

1. Did you know to you need to register for Text with 911?

2. What do you tend to use when you want to call 9-1-1 services? TTY? IP-Relay? Text with 9-1-1?

3. Are you still keeping your TTY “just in case” of emergency for 9-1-1?

4. Do you find the Text with 9-1-1 registration process clear or confusing?

These questions are based also on questions that the CRTC has asked our group, and our response will be stronger if we have the numbers from survey statistics to show for our arguments/points to them that perhaps the system NEEDS TO CHANGE.

To read about our survey, you can check our website link at: Deaf Community 9-1-1 Survey

Thank you,

~ Lisa Anderson-Kellett, Chairperson/CAD-ASC Director at Large: Wireless

on behalf of the Deaf Wireless Canada Consultative Committee (DWCC)

http://www.deafwireless.ca/

View the curriculum outline here