[Cagdu] FW: Film trains screeners on assisting disabled

tina thomas tinadt at sbcglobal.net
Thu Dec 20 16:47:11 PST 2007 

Subject: Film trains screeners on assisting disabled



Monkeys now? Omg!

> Denver Post, Colorado USA
> Monday, December 17, 2007
>
> Film trains screeners on assisting disabled
>
> By Jeffrey Leib
>
> Caption: Megan Talbert of Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers portrays the 
> travel companion of a disabled man in the TSA film, carrying his helper 
> monkey through security. (Post | Kathryn Scott Osler)
>
> Article Last Updated: 12/17/2007 01:37:19 PM MST
>
> It's not often that a Capuchin monkey or a $25,000 portable peritoneal 
> dialysis machine moves through a security checkpoint at Denver 
> International Airport.
>
> But every day at U.S. airports, security screeners deal with the special 
> needs of passengers with disabilities, including their service animals and

> high-tech medical aids.
>
> It is the Transportation Security Administration's job to ensure that its 
> 43,000 airport screeners treat disabled travelers with "sensitivity, care,

> dignity and respect," while maintaining strict security standards, said 
> Sandra Cammaroto, director of the TSA's program for screening people with 
> disabilities.
>
> For the past two weeks, a film crew has been making a training video at 
> DIA to teach TSA employees
>
> Extras
> View photos from the TSA training video shoot.
> nationwide the proper techniques for screening disabled travelers and 
> their medical equipment.
> The video crew filmed about 40 "scenarios" covering all categories of 
> disabilities - mobility, hearing, visual and "hidden," which includes 
> travelers' heart disease and other medical conditions.
>
> Several film segments focused on screening passengers with prosthetic 
> devices. Others included travelers with autism, oxygen equipment that 
> could not be disconnected, diabetes pumps and implanted medical devices, 
> such as pacemakers.
>
> To help develop proper screening procedures, the TSA formed a disability 
> coalition of at least 70 organizations nationally, including the Amputee 
> Coalition of America, The Seeing Eye dog-guide school, Paralyzed Veterans 
> of America, United Ostomy Associations of America and Englewood's Craig 
> Hospital, a recognized center for treating spinal-cord injuries.
>
> On Tuesday, Gregg Vigil arrived at DIA's north terminal checkpoint for the

> video segment on screening travelers in powered wheelchairs who cannot 
> stand or walk. Vigil, 49, uses such a chair after having contracted polio 
> at a young age.
>
> With great patience, Vigil, a founding member of the Denver theater 
> company PHAMALy, submitted to numerous full-body pat-downs from TSA lead 
> screener Allan Elliott as the production crew filmed take after take. 
> PHAMALy stands for Physically Handicapped Actors and Musical Artists 
> League.
>
> "When I come to a sensitive area, I'll use the back of my hand," Elliott 
> informed Vigil, citing TSA's standard operating procedure. The screener 
> then dabbed portions of the wheelchair with a wand for testing by an 
> explosives trace detection machine.
>
> "You have to be patient because the screening does take a few minutes," 
> Vigil said of his experiences traveling by air. He flies several times a 
> year and, unfailingly, he and his wheelchair are treated well by TSA 
> screeners, Vigil said.
>
> Simian assistant
>
> Around mid-afternoon, Megan Talbert arrived on a plane from Boston with 
> Cocomo, a 15-year-old female Capuchin monkey trained as a helper for 
> people who are paralyzed or have other severe mobility impairments.
>
> Talbert is chief operating officer of Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers for 
> the Disabled, a Boston-based nonprofit that trains the animals to assist 
> many with severe spinal-cord injuries or advanced neuromuscular diseases.
>
> Helper monkeys perform tasks such as turning on a computer, answering a 
> phone, putting in a CD and getting food or drink for a disabled companion.

> Helping Hands places from 12 to 15 monkeys with the disabled each year.
>
> Earlier in the day, the crew filmed the proper procedure for screening 
> airline passengers traveling with guide dogs. Now, it was Cocomo's turn 
> for a starring role in the video.
>
> Cammaroto set up the scenario: Vigil would be the passenger flying with 
> his helper monkey and a companion responsible for transporting the animal 
> in a soft pack that can fit under an airline seat.
>
> For the training film, Talbert assumed the companion role, taking Cocomo 
> from the pack and submitting herself and the monkey to additional 
> inspection by TSA screener Vivian Chavez after they set off an alarm while

> walking through a metal detector.
>
> "Don't touch the monkey," TSA screening specialist Michelle Godwin 
> counseled Chavez before film-crew director Paul Feldman called "action" to

> start the sequence.
>
> With her hands clasped behind her back, Chavez directed Talbert to remove 
> Cocomo's diaper. "Show me all the areas covered by the diaper," Chavez 
> instructed Talbert.
>
> After Vigil, Talbert and Cocomo were cleared by the additional screening, 
> Talbert put the monkey's diaper back on, the animal hopped on her shoulder

> and the trio moved forward out of camera range.
>
> "Cut. That was good," Feldman said, and the crew moved the camera 
> equipment and boom mike to capture the next scenario: screening a portable

> peritoneal dialysis machine the size and shape of a desktop computer 
> printer.
>
> Dialysis patients are traveling with these devices more frequently, said 
> Bob Dority, administrator of the Lakewood Dialysis Center, who brought the

> device for the video segment. Home peritoneal dialysis is an alternative 
> to hemodialysis for those with acute kidney disease.
>
> "It is our eyes"
>
> Leaders of groups representing the disabled say the TSA generally is doing

> a good job with its specialized screening. "We have not had problems for 
> years," said Julie Reiskin, executive director of the Colorado 
> Cross-Disability Coalition.
>
> Still, there are occasional inconsistencies in screening practices.
>
> Brent Batron, travel instructor for the Colorado Center for the Blind, 
> said sometimes blind travelers can use their cane to pass through a metal 
> detector, yet other times, blind passengers are asked to relinquish their 
> cane for separate inspection and accept a hand from a screener for the 
> walk-through.
>
> "It is our eyes; it is how we see," Batron said of the cane, and at all 
> times, blind travelers should be allowed to move through a metal detector 
> with their cane and then surrender it for screening if necessary.
>
> TSA policy does allow travelers to use a cane for the walk-through, Godwin

> said, and one purpose of the training video is to eliminate 
> inconsistencies in how the policy is applied.
>
> Jeffrey Leib: 303-954-1645 or jleib at denverpost.
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