Perkins School for the Blind, the first school in the U.S. for students with visual impairments, offers education and services to more than 200,000 children and adults in the U.S. and more than 60 countries worldwide.
The CVAA, championed in Washington, D.C., by Congressman Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts and Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas, acknowledges that advances in technology can revolutionize lives. Nearly 1 million people in the United States have some combination of vision and hearing loss. Persons with combined loss of vision and hearing as defined by the Helen Keller National Center Act, whose income does not exceed 400 percent of the Federal Poverty Guidelines, are eligible to participate in the new program.
“The mission of the Helen Keller National Center is to enable each person who is deaf-blind to live and work in his or her community of choice,” explains Executive Director Joe McNulty. “This critical technology access program accelerates those efforts, but only if people know about the resources. iCanConnect is poised to get the word out, coast to coast.”
“FableVision’s mission is to help ALL learners reach their full potential,” said Paul Reynolds, CEO of the multimedia design and development studio. “With this program we advance that mission – helping spread the word about equal access to tools that offer those with hearing and vision loss the transformational power of technology. Now everyone is invited to the technology promise powering the human network.”
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