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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDITION<br>
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Marlee Matlin is a guest team-leader and hosts the two-hour of episode of
"Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" on Sunday, September 17th.The family
immigrated from <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Philippines</st1:place></st1:country-region>
in 1997 because the father sought for a better eye treatment. The four family
members (a father, a grandmother, and two daughters) are legally blind from a
hereditary disease. A mother of a <br>
family is battling thyroid cancer. Another family member, a teenage boy, is deaf.
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A house is converted into a "Z Home" for it’s A- to Z-
technology. There are smoke sensors that give spoken warnings, a Braille
printer that can be controlled wirelessly by computers throughout the house,
and "iCommunicator" software to convert speech into sign-language
video clips. "iCommunicator" software enables a hearing father and
his deaf son to communicate each other. <br>
GoAmerica supplies Zeb Llanes, a deaf teenage family member, Blackberrys and a
relay service so Zeb can contact his mother by phone by sending text messages
to an operator. <br>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Assistant Director</span></font><font
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</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Boston University Office of Disability Services</span></font><font
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</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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