

- #SOMEONE WANTS TO PUT IN CABLE WILL MY CAPTION PHONE WORK HOW TO#
- #SOMEONE WANTS TO PUT IN CABLE WILL MY CAPTION PHONE WORK INSTALL#
- #SOMEONE WANTS TO PUT IN CABLE WILL MY CAPTION PHONE WORK CODE#
- #SOMEONE WANTS TO PUT IN CABLE WILL MY CAPTION PHONE WORK PROFESSIONAL#
#SOMEONE WANTS TO PUT IN CABLE WILL MY CAPTION PHONE WORK HOW TO#
The CaptionCall installer will show you how to use your phone and explain its many features.
#SOMEONE WANTS TO PUT IN CABLE WILL MY CAPTION PHONE WORK INSTALL#
In due time (and this may be a few days or longer depending on where you live and how busy the installers are in your area) a CaptionCall installer will contact you to arrange to come out and install your phone for you. Once CaptionCall receives both your “Request Into” and your “Professional Certification Form”, then you will be approved for a CaptionCall phone. If you would rather phone in your order, simply call the toll–free CaptionCall customer support number at 877–557–2227. It’s just that you will have to pay $75.00 for it.) (Note: if you do not submit this properly-signed form, you can still get a CaptionCall phone. Once you have the form filled out, FAX it to CaptionCall at 1-88. Note: qualified health care professionals permitted to sign this form include audiologists, hearing instrument specialists (hearing aid dispensers), ENT doctors (otolaryngologists), family physicians, GPs (general practitioners, specialists in gerontology, pediatrics and internal medicine, physician’s assistants (PA) and nurse practitioners (NP). Print out this form and take it to one of the following qualified health care professionals. Next, click here to download the form you need to have signed by a health care professional. When you are finished filling in the form, click “Submit”.
#SOMEONE WANTS TO PUT IN CABLE WILL MY CAPTION PHONE WORK CODE#
In the “Promo Code” box at the end of this form put in the code “HS-1283”. Near the top right corner of your screen, click on the green “Request Phone” box. Now here’s some wonderful news! You can currently get this phone for free, rather than the minimum $75.00 fee the FCC wants you to pay. The connection can be a DSL line, it can be a high-speed cable connection as long as you have a standard Ethernet connection into which you can plug this phone, or it can use a WiFi connection if you have a wireless router.

#SOMEONE WANTS TO PUT IN CABLE WILL MY CAPTION PHONE WORK PROFESSIONAL#
You must have a signed form from a qualified health care professional certifying that you need a captioned phone because of your hearing loss.There is no set decibel level of hearing loss required to get a captioned phone-just that you have difficulty hearing/understanding on the phone because of your hearing loss. You must be hard of hearing yourself, or someone in your household must have a hearing loss.It order to qualify for a CaptionCall phone, you need to meet the following: Requirements for Getting a CaptionCall Phone The competition between these two companies is a good thing for us as hard of hearing users as each company tries to outdo each other in innovation, features, quality and price. Yes, there are things that could be improved, but overall this is a really nice amplified, captioned phone for hard of hearing people. Although both of these phones work about the same, the sleek CaptionCall phone impressed me at first sight. My other phone is Sorenson’s CaptionCall phone. Today, CapTel’s state of the art phone is the CapTel 840i, which uses a regular phone line to transmit speech and a high-speed Internet connection to send the captions to the phone’s screen. I have had a CapTel phone since they began their first trials a few years ago. The first company to provide amplified, captioned phones was CapTel.

I have two of them on my desk as I write this. The good news is that there are such phones. And if you want the best of both worlds, you’d want a phone that could both amplify speech and caption it at the same time. The other is to convert the speech to text so you can read it. One is to amplify speech so it is loud enough for you to hear it. If you have trouble hearing on the phone, there are two basic technologies that can help you.
