Since 1977, Fanwood uses the total communication method of deaf education, which employs multiple means of communication including sign language and other modes, as necessary for each child.
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Total Communication educational programs have been established in the UK, France, U . S . A, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, Scandinavian countries, the Netherlands, France, Germany and elsewhere.
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Total Communication is a philosophy which uses signs, speech, gestures, speech reading, amplification, finger spelling, and / or other mode of communication to provide linguistic input to deaf children.
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In 1976, Frances Parsons visited FSD, and persuaded Saleena and other teachers that the Total Communication system would help to increase the understanding and mastery of American Sign Language.
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Indeed, if the Internet continues to grow at its current pace, some specialists believe voice telephone traffic will amount to less than 5 percent of the total communications business by 2004.
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Under this project, we will only put total communications systems at the larger branches while exploring the Internet as a prevailing network tool to link up the smaller ones, " he said.
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"They said to me, ` Wehling, we are not your advertising agency, "'he recalled, " and I said, ` Oh, really ?'and they said : ` No, we're your total communications agency.
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"We consider this a critical step toward our goal of becoming the ` total communications source'for our customers _ supplying complete packages of local telephone, long-distance, wireless, Internet, entertainment and next-generation digital services ."
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An American, Professor Frances Parsons, travelled around the world in 1976 in order to introduce Total Communication and Sign Language to poor schools for the deaf, in order to better prepare them for education.
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Northern Business Information, a market research firm in New York, estimates that AT & T sells about $ 10 billion in heavy switching and transmission equipment, accounting for about half the total communications equipment business.
