[MUSIC] Hello, the topic of this video is going to be Assistive Technology. A long, long time ago, the way we would do communication was literally knocking on somebody's door and passing a note to them. You may get on horseback and go from door to door. Then we had the postal service. Again, just writing letters back and forth. This is before telephones. And then after the telephones, there was an invention that we've called the teletype machine. Large, bulky, heavy thing and that was a wonderful leap in technology for the deaf community. Finally, we could have one-on-one direct communication, right? Besides writing notes to somebody, right, giving a note to somebody else to hand it to your end user. And we were finally able to have a smaller teletype machine, and the technology's been getting better and better til today. We have the video phones. And as well as the hearing community has video phones, so we're on par. Now, understand, the paging device is a little bit different. For the deaf community we had our little keyboards that would send messages from one to the next. And that technology of course evolved and evolved. It's really been a life changer all these different things I have been talking about. But these are very expensive and would be much too expensive for just the end user to pay by themselves. So between state and federal subsidies and this is getting accessible to the end user, it's important that we are having equal access to these communication technologies because communication helps in so many ways, in just living a productive life and safety. And technology is just so important.