One of the mobile phone systems you might look into is Nextel. They
have a mobile to mobile walkie talkie feature that allows you to talk
to other Nextel customers accross the country or accross town as part
of their service. I have never tried it but know many who have and
they love it.

Verizon, Cingular and a number of other mobile phone companies allow
calls between their customers as well.

This might work for your guy there.

Dick


On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 17:18:08 +1100, Ania Ciechanowski
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi (from a long time lurker),
>
> I've had a query from a carer of a young man with an acquired brain injury.
> The guy is planning a trip to the US. He is dysphasic and has some
> coordination and memory problems but is pretty independent. He will have a
> carer with him on the trip, but the carer will have some down time. The
> young man's parents/team want him to be able to contact the carer wherever
> he is eg across the other side of town and do this in any city.
>
> His therapy team feel he could press a sequence of 2 (maybe 3) numbers, but
> this would be compromised if he was stressed/ had fallen over (cognitive
> rather than physical issue).  The team is enquiring about pager systems/
> mobile phones that could be used - I'm not sure what's available in the
> States or who to contact. The solution may be a phone with international
> roaming..not sure..
>
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated,
> Thank you, Ania Ciechanowski
>


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