TDI Biennial International Conference

Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Inc. (TDI) announces the 17th Biennial TDI Conference,at the Marriott San Mateo / San Francisco Airport on August 23-25, 2007.

Theme:
Shaping An Accessible World has been TDI’s work for nearly forty years since its founding in Indianapolis, Indiana. Since 1968, when H. Latham Breunig, his wife Nancy, and Jess Smith founded the organization, TDI has worked over the years with many consumer advocates, and officials from telecommunications and media companies, government, and academia toward making this world more accessible step-by-step. This conference looks back on our past achievements and allows us to look ahead to the future.

Program Plans:
New this year will be special workshops for consumers, providing them with a unique opportunity to interact with professionals and share their ideas of an accessible world. TDI is making every effort to develop a program that not only meets the need of professionals which work in deafness-related telecommunications and media fields, but to address specific and common needs and issues that impact consumers who are deaf, hard of hearing, late-deafened, and deaf-blind.

Accessibility:
Assistive listening devices will be provided for all workshops and speakers along with real time captioning and sign language interpreting services. Upon request, we will provide tactile interpreting services.