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Announcements
LINC Job Opening
Assistive Technology / Special Education Professional
Full or Part-time
Nonprofit Baltimore computer resource center for children and adults with
disabilities seeks professional with background in assistive technology,
special education, speech/language pathology, occupational therapy, or a
related field.
To Apply: Email cover letter w/ salary expectations and resume to
info@linc.org or FAX to 410-659-5472. (www.linc.org)
Duties:
- Provide consumer services
- Provide assistive technology, hands-on consultations for people of all
- disabilities and ages
- Provide technical support to consumers
- Prepare reports and documentation based on consultations
- Manage Projects
- Maintain computers
- Install and recommend software
- Provide professional development for teachers
- Transport equipment
- Provide technology-related training and participate in outreach services
- Conduct training for professionals, parents, and consumers
- Participate in exhibits and equipment demonstrations
- Stay up to date on current assistive technology applications
- B.A. or M.S. degree in Special Education, Speech/Language, O.T., P.T., or related field. Two years related experience preferred.
- Knowledge of AT devices and services
- Experience working with people with disabilities and knowledge about a variety of disabilities
- Ability to manage and implement education projects in the schools, community, and at LINC
- Technology skills, including multimedia presentations, word processing and data base skills
- Ability to learn and apply the function of assistive technology to help individuals with disabilities
- Must be able to work occasional weekends or evenings
- Knowledge of educational curriculum grades K-12
Learning Independence Through Computers (LINC)
1001 Eastern Avenue Third Floor
Baltimore, MD 21202
Phone: 410. 659-5462
FAX: 410. 659-5472
e-mail: lincmary@aol.com
www.linc.org
Mentoring Day 2002
The American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) and the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) present "National Disability Mentoring Day 2002: Career Development for the 21st Century," which will be held on October 16th.
This effort promotes the employment of students and jobseekers with disabilities through job shadowing and personal mentoring with volunteers at public and private places of employment.
To find out how you can get involved, contact Jonathan Young at AAPD at 800-840-8844 or 202-457-0046 (V/TTY), or visit the AAPD web site at
www.aapd-dc.org/mentor.html
Telephone Access for People with Speech Disabilities
If you have a speech disability and live in the USA (including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands), you can now use a new, free telephone service 24 hours a day. It is also available (fewer hours of the day) in Sweden and Australia. This FCC mandated service, called Speech-to-Speech (STS), provides communication assistants (CA's) for people with difficulty being understood by the public on the telephone.
www.ilru.org/news/Announcements/telephone.html
Power Wheelchairs Available To Many
Senior citizens may obtain electric wheelchairs at no cost from the "Miracle on Wheels: organization.
The wheelchairs are provided to those who cannot walk and cannot self-propel a manual wheelchair in their homes, and who meet additional qualifications. The service may also be available to people of any age who are permanently disabled.
For more information, call 1-800-749-8778, or
visit www.durablemedical.com.
The Metropolitan Washington Ear, Inc. New Services
The Telephone Dial-In Service now allows you to hear program notes for described theater performances as they become available.
Go to the Washington Post, category 28 (audio description) branch 10. Keep tapping the number 2 key until you come to the name of the theater where the performance is being held. Immediately following the basic information concerning names and dates of audio described performances, you will hear the program notes for the current described performance as soon as they are available.
Radio Reading Service Now On The Internet
If you do nor have an Ear radio reading service receiver (and even if you do), via your computer, you can now hear what is live on the radio reading service at the moment plus 4 weeks of archived programs. Just visit the website any time, anywhere in the world.
www.washear.org
N.O.D's 2nd Annual Accessible America 2002 Competition
Communities of America Will Compete for $25,000 Prize Saluting Access for Citizens with Disabilities
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 24-The National Organization on Disability (N.O.D.) today announced the beginning of its second annual $25,000 Accessible America 2002 award competition, open to all U.S. cities and towns. N.O.D. is urging America's mayors and chief elected officials to enter their communities in the competition. Entrants will showcase how their citizens with disabilities are participating and contributing locally. The competition was announced at a Capitol Hill event commemorating the Americans with Disabilities Act's 12th anniversary this coming Friday July 26. It is sponsored by United Parcel Service, as was last year's contest. Venice, Fla. won that inaugural contest, which had over 60 outstanding entries from around the nation.
"Our nation's commitment to our 54 million citizens with disabilities is felt by individual people in their own town or city. Citizens with disabilities are eager to participate and contribute just like everyone else," says Nancy Starnes, the Director of N.O.D.'s Community Partnership Program. Ms. Starnes, a wheelchair user, is herself a former mayor of Sparta, N.J.
The winner of the competition will be a city or town where citizens with disabilities have opportunities for full and equal participation in the life of their community, including access to jobs, education, religious worship, voting, transportation, housing, and the full range of local, social, recreational, cultural, and sports activities. Another area that N.O.D. is giving special focus in the wake of last September's terrorist attacks is emergency preparedness for people with disabilities. The competition is designed to highlight community-wide progress and inspire replication.
To enter the competition, communities will submit a statement signed by their mayor describing how their city or town (or county, if it represents unincorporated communities within its borders) provides opportunities for citizens with disabilities to participate fully in community life. Entries must be postmarked by December 31, 2002.
To learn more about the Accessible America 2002 competition and the numerous benefits that membership in the Community Partnership Program offers to communities, visit N.O.D.'s web site, www.nod.org , or call Nancy Starnes at 202/293-5960. Member communities, represented by their mayors, receive guidance, complimentary copies of N.O.D. research reports and publications, legislative updates, alerts and bulletins on disability issues, and tips on working with constituents with disabilities. The program shares information about and promotes replication of model local disability programs through its growing network of more than a thousand towns, cities and counties committed to mainstreaming people with disabilities.
AFB's CareerConnect
The American Foundation for the Blind is pleased to announce the launch of
AFB CareerConnect
AFB CareerConnect is an interactive web site where people with visual impairments can explore the world of work. The latest resource developed by the American Foundation for the Blind, AFB CareerConnect enables job seekers who are blind or visually impaired to learn about specific careers, connect with prospective mentors who are visually impaired and working in a particular field of interest, create a resume, obtain valuable interviewing techniques, learn about the latest technologies in use at various worksites, and more. At www.afb.org/careerconnect you can learn about a wide range of careers with the help of more than 1,500 mentors in our fully accessible database.
www.afb.org/careerconnect