Silent Siren

• NCJ Number: 71113
• Author(s): J Sullivan
• Editor(s): J Katz
• Date Published: 1980
• Length: 0 pages
• Sponsoring Agency: Rochester Institute of Technology
• Corporate Author: US Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare; Rochester Institute of Technology
• Sale Source: Not Available Through National Institute of Justice/NCJRS Document Loan Program; Rochester Institute of Technology
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: *This document is currently unavailable from NCJRS. 25 minutes, 16mm color, 1980. There is an accompanying booklet that can be purchased.

Annotation

This videotape for police, produced by the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, shows how a little additional knowledge can result in officers' increased ability to control situations involving deaf people.

Abstract

A bicycle accident involving a deaf driver is used to focus on public reaction to deaf persons and to point out the complications when a police officer is not initially aware that a person is deaf. A second incident involving a deaf shoplifting suspect shows the different ways in which police can communicate with the deaf--through writing, speaking, and using an interpreter. In the third incident, in which two deaf men are fighting, police use some basic sign language. An enclosed booklet published by the National Technical Institute for the Deaf discusses communication with the deaf, legal rights of the deaf, installation of a teletypewriter that allows a deaf person to use the telephone, and relevant programs. It includes a list of information sources.