April 23, 2004
Father and daughter's SMS lifeline
In a heart warming story, the BBC reports on an Essex man who has taught himself to use text-messaging at the age of 81, so that he can communicate with his daughter who is deaf and has no speech.
"Arthur Dee from Romford decided to buy two mobile handsets which were on offer at his local Tesco supermarket so that his daughter, Pamela, could contact him to let him know when she wants to be picked up.
Mr Dee said that 57 year-old Pamela still lives with him but likes to travel around independently by bus.
"In the past we've had real problems when the bus hasn't turned up," he told BBC News Online.
"She had to ask somebody to ring me but often I would already have left to pick her up, so there was no way she could let me know that she wasn't going to be at the bus stop."
How text messaging has proven a God send for the Deaf or Hearing Impaired comes up now and again in Textually, (cf this special category ), truly the segment of the population who benefits most from this wonderful technology.
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