A two-piece portable device conceived by the state’s Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, built by a Canadian company and perfected with feedback from Seattle residents, is helping members of the deaf-blind community to communicate.
Seattle Times staff reporter
Not long ago, Robert J. Steppler walked from his home in Wedgwood to a little coffee shop nearby, ordered a green tea and chatted with the baristas.
While that may sound hardly worthy of note, for Steppler and others like him, it most certainly is.
Steppler, a deaf-blind individual, is one of the first people in the world to use a new device called the DeafBlind Communicator, which allows him to communicate freely despite his disabilities.
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