10/24/01
- CAN Launches Project Access, Seeking
Access Stories
Resulting from September 11
TDI is a member of the Consumer Action Network
(CAN), a coalition of national organizations working together to develop
national policies on behalf of individuals who are deaf, late-deafened,
hard-of-hearing and deaf-blind.
CAN is seeking stories from individuals like
yourself, with your experiences in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks
on New York City and Washington, DC. TDI also recognizes that those
experiences illustrates the far-reaching positive and adverse
ramifications of the changes in American telecommunications and media that
we all face. CAN's press release is reprinted below my signature.
When you send an e-mail to CAN, please send an e-mail copy to info@tdi-online.org
as well.
Sincerely,
Jim House
Director of Member Services & Public Relations
TDI
8630 Fenton St., #604
Silver Spring, MD 20910 jimhouse@tdi-online.org
TTY: 301-589-3006
Voice: 301-589-3786
FAX: 301-589-3797
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For more info: www.tdi-online.org
"Promoting Equal Access to
Telecommunications and Media for People
Who are Deaf, Late-Deafened,
Hard-of-Hearing or Deaf-Blind"
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE:
CAN LAUNCHES PROJECT
ACCESS,
SEEKING ACCESS STORIES RESULTING FROM SEPTEMBER 11
The Consumer Action Network (CAN)
announces Project Access, an effort to gather stories of how deaf and hard of
hearing people, family members and friends encountered access to information,
communications, travel or services as a result of the tragic events September
11, 2001.
"We are looking for stories of how access for and to deaf and hard of
hearing adults and children was provided and dealt with in the aftermath of
the attacks. From those stories, we want to identify systems and
programs that are effective and use them as a model for other systems and
programs. We also want to see where there was a failure to provide
access to and for
deaf and hard of hearing people, and analyze those situations to see what
could have been done to prevent those failures," stated Cheryl Heppner,
CAN Chair.
Those stories will be gathered and used to develop planning and proposals for
future access. Individuals and groups are encouraged to submit personal
stories and experiences to:
In E-MAIL submissions, please put "Project Access" in the subject
header.
CAN is the premier coalition of national consumer organizations representing a
wide continuum of deaf and hard of hearing people, including those who are
deaf-blind and late-deafened. There are over 28 million deaf and hard of
hearing people in the United States. For more information about CAN, contact
Arvilla Rank, Vice-Chair, at vicechair@candhh.com.
Members of CAN include ADARA, American Association of the Deaf-Blind (AADB),
American Society for Deaf Children (ASDC), Association of Late-Deafened Adults
(ALDA), Conference of Educational Administrators of Schools and Programs for
the Deaf (CEASD), Deaf Seniors of America (DSA), Gallaudet University Alumni
Association (GUAA), Jewish Deaf Congress (JDC), National Association of the
Deaf (NAD), National Black Deaf Advocates (NBDA), National Catholic Office of
the Deaf (NCOD), National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM), Registry of
Interpreters for the Deaf (RID), TDI, Inc. (TDI), USA Deaf Sports Federation (USADSF).
