National Deaf-Blind Equipment Distribution Program
On June 8, 2012, in conjunction with the Helen Keller National Center (HKNC)and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Perkins School for the Blind was elected to conduct nationwide outreach for the National Deaf-Blind Equipment Distribution Program (NDBEDP).
Mandated by the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA) and established by the FCC, the NDBEDP will aid individuals with combined vision and hearing loss connect with family, friends and their community by distributing accessible communications technology. Perkins and partners' outreach campaign to educate people on this program is called iCanConnect, which will aim to inform the nearly one million people in the United States with some sort of combined hearing and vision loss on the types of equipment--e.g. screen-enlargement software, video phones and electronic refreshable braille displays--available to them free of charge.
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