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From: Cliff Tyllick
Date: Feb 8, 2013 10:33PM

I received this requests for participants in this survey today. If you live in the United States, and especially if you have one or more disabilities, your response to this survey on communicating with emergency services might be significant:


The Wireless Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) Survey on Emergency Communications & People with Disabilities
While data collection is underway for the Survey of User Needs, the Wireless RERC's Consumer Research Team has also just launched a new survey on emergency communications.  Emergency communications generally include two main components:
 
1) contacting emergency response services (911 services) for help, and
2) receiving public emergency alerts for events like severe weather and other natural events, amber alerts for missing children, and other emergencies.
 
Some of you will remember that we conducted this survey once before, almost two years ago. Because the technology is changing so rapidly and new government rules are being implemented, we think it's the right time to conduct the survey again. The data will be of great interest to regulatory authorities and other professionals working to improve emergency response and disaster relief.
 
Additional Information
Start the Survey on Emergency Communications and People with Disabilities!
The Wireless Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center You can take the survey online, by phone or on paper by calling 1-404-367-1348.