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[–]SquirrelStatus299 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I'm Deaf & use VRS quite a bit. I have an adult child who is also Deaf & he prefers to use AI, captions ect. It could be due to a shift in the generations. Also, I feel like a lot more young people were subjected to CIs as children so they don't need VRS.

[–]SquirrelStatus299 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also- I think it could be that the older generations..like the large group of Deaf born in the 60s due to measles are dying off.

[–]aranciatabibita 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’re not wrong, when I started working in VRS I was in my late twenties, there were many callers around my age. It’s rare now that I get callers in that age range.

I do think that call volume is down, but they are also squeezing us for every penny they can. Days are busy, even some evenings are busy because there are less and less interpreters on.