USING THE EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION SYSTEM FOR SOCIALLY EXCLUDED PEOPLE ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE DEAF IN POLAND

Implemented in Poland since 2011, the emergency notification system is primarily based on direct, telephone, verbal contact between the person making the application and the operator of the emergency number in the Emergency Response Centre (CPR), a police officer in county command, firefighter in county command of the State Fire Service, or by emergency medical dispatcher. It makes that with such assumptions, it becomes unavailable for the deaf. Such people cannot make verbal contact by phone. Even if in your daily life can make the words and communicate with the caller through a direct reading from his lips, then by the inability to hear the telephone becomes impossible. A deaf person can make contact and exchange information either through visual and communication in sign language, or by written communication. In view of the widespread use even among the deaf mobile phones there is a possibility to use for sending alerts short text messages, so-called "SMS." In this article Author presents his experiences and the insights related  to the emergency notification and the possibility to use its functionality by people with auditory disability. experiences were collected during an active participation of the author in activities related to the creation of the emergency notification system in Podkarpacie Region and during implementation SMS gateway designed to receive alerts from the deaf from the region in 2014 in the Emergency Notification Centre in Rzeszow.

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