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Confirmed Exhibitors
American Foundation for
the Blind
California Telephone Access
Program
The California Telephone Access Program (CTAP) is a state-mandated program
that provides adaptive telephone equipment and related services to
California residents experiencing difficulty using a standard telephone due
to hearing, vision, mobility, speech and/or memory loss. These include, but
are not limited to, amplified telephones and signal devices; large button
telephones; remote-activated speakerphones; and photo telephones.
Equipment are provided at no cost to qualified California residents
regardless of age or income.
Damon Brooks
Associates
A Speaker and Entertainment resource, featuring those who have a disability.
DO-IT
(Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology)
DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology), at the
University of Washington, serves to increase the participation of students
with disabilities in challenging academic programs and careers, including
science, engineering, technology, mathematics, and business. Work-based
learning experiences such as company tours, job shadows, and internships are
valuable to student preparation. DO-IT is seeking partners to improve
inclusion in the workplace and provide these work experiences to high school
and college students with disabilities, your future employees!
Dolphin Computer
Access
Hands On Video Relay
Services, Inc.
Hands On Video Relay Services, Inc. (HOVRS) provides a new communication
tool that allows the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing community to communicate
effectively and naturally with the hearing world through American Sign
Language (ASL). HOVRS uses the Internet to provide an audio/video link to a
qualified, certified Video Interpreter (VI) who interprets between the
visual language of ASL and the auditory language of a hearing person.
HOVRS is available
Nationwide, anywhere high speed Internet lines are available.
Job Accommodation
Network
The Job Accommodation Network (JAN), celebrating its 20th year, is a free consulting service that
provides information about job accommodations, the Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA), and the employability of people with disabilities.
MAXIMUS
- Ticket to Work Program
Ticket to Work is a new SSA program that creates employment opportunities
for people with disabilities who are ready and available to work. For
employers, Ticket to Work offers referrals and partnership opportunities
with community organizations (Employment Networks) to hire qualified people
with disabilities to meet your hiring needs. Click on our link above to
learn how Ticket to Work can work for you!
National
Business & Disability Council (NBDC)
For the past 24 years, NBDC has played a major role in
helping businesses create accessible work conditions for employees and
accessible products and services for consumers.
Deaf Initiative in
Information Technology (NTID/RIT)
The Deaf Initiative in Information Technology, at the National Technical
Institute for the Deaf at the Rochester Institute of Technology provides
low-cost (no interpreters required), computer training workshops in sign
language for deaf and hard-of-hearing professionals. This non-profit
project, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, seeks help from BLN
participants to publicize the week-long workshops to their deaf/hh
employees. The project is willing to work with BLN members to tailor
training and provide on-site workshops. For more information, please click
on name (above).
Pacific ADA and IT
Center (Pacific DBTAC)
Build partnerships between the disability and business communities and
promotes full and unrestricted participation in society for persons with
disabilities through education and technical assistance.
RecruitABILITY
disABLEDperson, Inc., a 501 (c) (3) public charity, tax
exempt organization has a mission to reduce the high unemployment rate
amongst Americans with disABILITIES by providing online recruitment software
known as “recruitABILITY .” A primary goal associated with this mission is
to connect Americans with any disABILITY with employers who are proactive in
hiring them. Our services are free to all who deal with employment of the
disabled. We live off of donations and grants.
Salisbury University
Salisbury University and the Access Group are
working toward the removal of all attitudinal barriers regarding people with
disabilities. The goal is to have every company and organization see
abilities not disabilities. The vision is to educate companies and
organizations regarding how people with disabilities can
- increase their revenues, profits and performance
- enable them, by being proactive, to avoid accessibility lawsuits
- enhance their employment and retention
- enhance their DIVERSITY initiatives and awareness of the differently-abled
by cost effective disability awareness training - Opening Minds: A New
Perspective -utilizing Video’s, DVD, Workbooks, Leader’s Guide, BOOK
(on-line in spring).
Social Security Administration
The Social Security Administration is always
looking for qualified people to help accomplish our mission of serving the
public's Social Security needs. The Social Security Administration provides
necessary, reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities so that
they may perform their duties successfully. We encourage individuals with
disabilities to join us. Using programs such as the Selective Placement
Program, we place qualified individuals with disabilities into positions
that maximize their talents.
TextHelp
For the individual with a learning or reading disability,
electronic text can be as forbidding as a six inch curb is for a wheelchair
user. Texthelp Systems is a software development company which specializes
in literacy products and website accessibility. The box products are
designed primarily for people with learning disabilities but also have high
utility value for people with low literacy levels. The web accessibility
products bring accessibility (text to speech) to online content.
Zephyr-TEC
For over a decade Zephyr-TEC has provided training, customization and
on-going technical support of speech recognition software. Our programmers
integrate speech recognition software into non-standard applications and our
group and on-line classes instruct users how to control MS Office with
speech recognition. As daily users of speech recognition software, we
instruct people with RSI how to become productive with their voice instead
of their hands. Visit our booth and see a LIVE demonstration of Dragon
NaturallySpeaking.
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