Nick & Joseph Berman, identical twins from Brighton, NY work as parking monitors at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) where they are students. Part of a pilot program to make campus safety officers more accessible to the large Deaf pipulation at RIT and the National Technical Institute of the Deaf (NTID) where out of 14,000 students, 1,100 are Deaf. All RIT campus safety officers are required to know basic sign language which is no problem for the Berman twins! Bob Craig, director of campus safety at first opposed having Deaf officers work for him due to communication obstacles putting them at risk. Craig, a retired deputy police chief, however, changed his mind after meeting Gerry Buckley, NTID’s associate dean of student affairs who showed ways a Deaf officer can accomplish the same thing a hearing officer can. “Now I have the fever”, Craig says. To date as many as five Deaf students have been hired for six month work experience positions. “We’re looking to see what emerging technology we can purchase to make the campus more inclusive”, Craig was quoted in an article by Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reporter Greg Livadas in May. “One option is using portable text pagers from American Online…”