ABLECOMM Year Two: Outreach Efforts Stepped Up
LINC is well into year two of the AbleComm project, the regional information and technical assistance resource project that brings adults and children with disabilities into the telecommunications mainstream.
AbleComm is a joint effort of the Alliance for Technology Access (ATA) Centers in the Bell Atlantic region. In addition to LINC, the centers include the Tidewater Center for Technology Access (TCTA) in Virginia Beach, VA; the Center for Enabling Technology (CET) in Whippany, NJ; and the most recently added center, the Computer Center for People with Disabilities (CCdA) in Shrewsbury, NJ. Services are also available in Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Delaware and West Virginia.
LINC conducted introductory Internet workshops for members of the MD Speech Language Hearing Association in Baltimore and another for persons with disabilities and their caregivers in West Virginia; and a telecommunications workshop at the Information and Technology Exposition and Conference (ITEC) which more than 6000 people visited at the Baltimore Convention Center.
In the second phase, LINC will conduct a number of workshops to instruct employers, teachers and parents about adaptive tele-communications equipment.
To learn more about the AbleComm project and telecommunications resources that LINC compiled during the first year of the project visit http://www.linc.org/ablecom1.html. (Summer 1996)
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