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Resources - Accessible Services
This resource directory contains services and providers for developing accessible facilities and programs in the arts. This is a listing of regional and national providers. The NADC encourages contacting manufacturers, vendors and service providers to ensure the most up-to-date information is obtained at the time of need. Please note the following resources are provided for information purposes only and do not denote an endorsement by the National Arts and Disability Center.
Williams Sound Corp. US Headquarters
10321 West 70th Street
Eden Prairie, MN 55344-3446
Phone: (952) 943-2252
TDD: (952) 943-9675
Fax: (952) 943-2174
Email: info@williamssound.com
Internet: http://www.williamssound.com/
Description: Williams Sound pioneered the development of Assistive Listening Devices more than 32 years ago and remains the industry leader today. They manufacture a variety of products designed to help people hear.

Feed the Soul
Internet: http://www.infinitec.org/learn/art/feedsoul.htm
Description: A Web site produced by Infinitec, Inc. describing adaptive equipment used by artists with disabilities. This site includes a visual arts gallery of art work created by artists using various adaptive devices.

ABLEDATA
8630 Fenton Street, Suite 930
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone: (800) 227-0216
TDD: (301) 608-8912
Fax: (301) 608-8958
Email: abledata@macrointernational.com
Internet: http://www.abledata.com
Description: ABLEDATA provides information on assistive technology and rehabilitation equipment available from domestic and international sources to consumers, organizations, professionals, and caregivers within the United States. The ABLEDATA database contains information on more than 29,000 assistive technology products. The database contains detailed descriptions of each product including price and company contact information.

Assistive Listening Devices for People with Hearing Loss: A Guide for Performing Arts Settings. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
This is a practical guide about accessible and universally usable facilities and performing arts programs.

Alliance for Technology Access
1304 Southpoint Blvd, Suite 240
Petaluma, CA 94954
Phone: (707) 778-3011
TDD: (707) 778-3015
Fax: (707) 765-2080
Email: ATAinfo@ATAccess.org
Internet: http://www.ataccess.org/
Description: The Alliance for Technology Access (ATA) is a network of community-based Resource Centers, Developers, Vendors and Associates dedicated to providing information and support services to children and adults with disabilities, and increasing their use of standard, assistive, and information technologies.

Artizan Millworks
1029 Panicum Lane
Prescott, AZ 86305
Phone: (928) 713-1162
Description: Artizan sells a moving easel that is modified to accommodate the individual needs of artists with disabilities. The moving easel both secures the canvas to brackets on the easel and can then be adjusted by the artist to a comfortable painting position.

Vision Technology
8501 Delport Drive
Saint Louis, MO 63114-5905
Phone: 800-560-7226
Fax: 314-890-8383
Email: clientservices@vti1.com
Internet: http://www.visiontechnology.com
Description:

From state-of-the-art precision glass optics, auto-focus technology and the industries first incorporation of LED lighting, the impact of Vision Technology products is evident across the low vision industry.


Audio Description Associates (ADA)
6502 Westmoreland Avenue
Takoma Park , MD 20912
Phone: (301) 920-0218
Fax: (208) 445-0079
Email: jsnyder@audiodescribe.com
Internet: http://www.audiodescribe.com/
Description: ADA offers a full range of Audio Description services. ADA professionals use their expertise in the arts to create access for people who are blind or have low visionand their families. ADA helps communities, arts organizations, and other entities build Audio Description programs providing access to a broad array of live arts events (media, museum exhibits, theater, opera, and dance), as well as museum exhibits, meetings, tours, circuses, parades, and sports events.

Audio Description Coalition
Los Angeles , CA Email: info@AudioDescriptionCoalition.org
Internet: http://www.audiodescriptioncoalition.org/
Description:

Audio Description Coalition members are trained audio describers, administrators, and users dedicated to the highest quality of audio description through training, mentoring, evaluation and professional development and are committed to upholding the Audio Description Coalition Standards for Audio Description and Code of Professional Conduct for Describers.


Audio Eyes
Northridge , CA 91436
Phone: 818-782-7733
TDD: (818) 782-7733
Email: info@weseetv.com
Internet: http://www.weseetv.com/
Description: We See TV produces audio description tracks for audio/video products including broadcast television, DVD's, industrial videos, and theater release films. Captioning and subtitling services are also available. We See TV employs visually impaired audio engineers and voice over talent in the production of description tracks.

Communication Access Network
925 Wappoo Road, Suite B
Charleston , SC 29407
Phone: (845) 652-7014
TDD: (843) 763-3944
Fax: (843) 571-6325
Email: pj@caninterpreting.com
Internet: http://www.caninterpreters.com/
Description: Communication Access Network, Inc. is committed to providing comprehensive communication services to its customers. Through their network of interpreters, captioners and independent consultants organizations can achieve full compliance with existing laws. They serve people in South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Washington DC. They released a distance video interpreting service at http://www.myvideointerpreter.com/ which provides secure point to point video and audio communication via the internet.

DBA Front Row
2080 Lakeville Hwy
Petaluma, CA 94954-7600
Phone: (707) 769-1110
TDD: (800) 227-0735 x 5
Fax: (707) 769-9624
Email: customerservice@gofrontrow.com
Internet: http://www.gofrontrow.com
Description: 40 Years in education has taught us a thing or two. Since 1963, we've been using extensive acoustic and audiological experience to help teachers bring learning to life. Our systems are designed with a deep understanding of speech intelligibility and real-world usability, based on years spent in schools - constantly improving our technology - and kids' learning experiences. 

The Metropolitan Washington Ear, Inc.
12061 Tech Road
Silver Spring, MD 2090
Phone: (301) 681-6636
TDD:
Fax: (301) 681-5227
Email: information@washear.org
Internet: http://www.washear.org
Description: The Metropolitan Washington Ear is a national organization that conducts research and provides services for persons who are blind or have partial vision, as well as people with other disabilities. The Ear has developed and perfected audio description-a technique that uses trained narrators to describe, between lines of dialogue, what is happening on the screen, television, or stage.

Braille Works International, Inc.
941 Darby Lake St.
Seffner, FL 33584
Phone: (813) 654-4050
TDD: (800) 258-7544
Fax: (813) 689-8628
Email: brailleworks@brailleworks.com
Internet: http://www.brailleworks.com/
Description: Braille Works International, Inc. provides Braille and Large Print materials. They produce audiocassettes and diskettes of many different kinds of materials. Some of their projects have been: conference materials for NCIL along with many other agencies, and labeling software in Braille, etc.

Dancing Dots Braille Music Technology, L.P.
1754 Quarry Lane
PO Box927
Valley Forge, PA 19482-0927
Phone: 610-783-6692
Fax: 610-783-6732
Internet: http://www.DancingDots.com
Description:

Dancing Dots: developing and adapting technology to benefit blind musicians and those who educate them since 1992. Scan printed scores, listen to results or convert to braille music notation. Play your musical ideas into your PC. Convert to print notation, braille score or audio CD.  Braille music courses/educational resources.


National Braille Press
88 St. Stephen Street
Boston, MA 02115
Phone: (888) 965-8965, (617) 266-6160
Fax: (617) 437-0456
Email: info@nbp.org
Internet: http://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp
Description: National Braille Press is a Boston-based nonprofit Braille printing and publishing house. National Braille Press offers employers information on how to get publications, employment applications, etc., in alternate format for people with visual disabilities.

Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic
20 Roszel Road
Princeton, NJ 08540
Phone: (609) 520-8096
TDD: (800) 221-4792
Fax: (609) 520-7990
Email: info@rfbd.org
Internet: http://www.rfbd.org/
Description: Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic serves all people with print disabilities those who can't effectively read standard print because of a disability. They serve more than 102,000 members worldwide. [what do they do, will they record text you give them?]

The American Printing House for the Blind, Inc.
1839 Frankfort Avenue
Louisville, KY 40206-0085
Phone: (502) 895-2405
Fax: (502) 899-2274
Internet: http://www.aph.org/
Description: The American Printing House for the Blind makes products that give blind students an equal opportunity in the classroom and blind adults an equal opportunity in the workplace. They sell Braille and large type textbooks, Talking Books and audio equipment. They have a database of accessible materials for people who are blind or visually impaired.

A Guide to Making Documents Accessible to People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired: An Online Technical Assistance Guide to Producing Documents in Alternative Formats by Jennifer Sutton, American Council of the Blind.

Bay Area Video Coalition
2727 Mariposa Street 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94110
Phone: (415) 861-3282
Fax: (415) 861-4316
Email: bavc@bavc.org
Internet: http://www.bavc.org
Description:

Bay Area Video Coalition provides independent producers and artists as well as nonprofit organizations with broadcast-level training and state of the art equipment access. Bay Area Video Coalitions. To meet the needs of independent producers of both broadcast and non broadcast work, they make video and television programs accessible to the sizable audience of deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers that benefits from captioning for effective communication. Their captioning services enable producers to creative works thatÊcan be used in compliance with the access requirements of the ADA and other federal legislation. Captioning is done post-production during the editing process--not live captioning.


Caption First, Inc.
P.O. Box 1924
Lombard, IL 60148
Phone: (800) 825-5234
Fax: (888) 957-5234
Email: info@captionfirst.com
Internet: http://www.captionfirst.com
Description: Caption First provides voice-to-text services known as CART and captioning for people with hearing loss worldwide. Caption First will travel on- site, provides services for conventions and provides remote internet services for meetings, training sessions and teleconferences.

Captions, Inc.
901 W. Alameda Ave.
Burbank, CA 91506
Phone: (818) 260-2700
Fax: (818) 260-2850
Email: captions@captionsinc.com
Internet: http://www.captionsinc.com
Description: Captions, Inc., is a leading provider of captioning and subtitling services to movie studios, post-production houses, independent filmmakers, theaters, museums, broadcast and cable networks.  Since 1986 we`ve been developing high-end, innovative solutions for the worldwide entertainment industry from our Hollywood-area headquarters.

Closed Captioning Services
4450 Lakeside Dr. Suite 350
Burbank, CA 91505
Phone: 818-848-8826
Fax: 818-848-2023
Email: sales@ccscaption.com
Internet: http://www.ccscaption.com/index.htm
Description:

CCS is a premier captioning agency that captions thousands of hours of live national and local broadcasts and conferences each year to provide equal access to millions of Americans.  Captioning can be provided for pre-recorded programs as well as live events.


Communication Access Real-time Translation (CART)
Phone: (800) 272-6272
Internet: http://www.cartinfo.org/
Description: The primary purpose of the Communication Access Information Center is to provide information of use to people employing or in need of Communication Access Real-time Translation (CART), also known as real-time captioning. This technology is primarily used by people who are hearing-impaired or who are learning English as a second language.

Deaf-Hearing Communication Center (DHCC)
630 Fairview Road, Suite 100
Swarthmore, PA 19081
Phone: (610) 604-0450
TDD: (610) 604-0450
Fax: (610) 604-0456
Email: info@dhcc.org
Internet: http://www.dhcc.org/
Description: Deaf-Hearing Communication Center provides interpreters, realtime captioners, 24 ER interpreters, sensitivity training, ASL classes, and information and referral in Pennsylvania, Northern Delaware, and Southern New Jersey as well.

MagniSight Inc.
3631 North Stone Ave
Colorado Springs , CO 80907
Phone: (800) 753-4767
Fax: (719) 578-9887
Email: mailto:darryll@magnisight.com
Internet: http://www.magnisight.com/
Description: MagniSight manufacturers a line of Closed Circuit Television products for the visually impaired. Their electronic magnification devices which enhance whatever image is being viewed by the camera unit. They have sales representatives nationwide who represent their products in many areas of the country.

Rapidtext
1801 Dove Street, Suite 101
Newport Beach, CA 92660
Phone: (949) 399-9200 Ext. 253
Fax: (949) 399-9216
Email: tcinfo@peoplesupport.com
Internet: http://www.rapidtext.com
Description: Rapidtext provides specialized captioning and transcription services for all types of public events. Rapidtext has provided real time captions in public facilities with thousands of people in attendance.

The Caption Center at WGBH
300 East Magnolia Blvd., #201
Burbank, CA 91502
Phone: (818) 562-3344
Fax: (818) 562-3388
Email: access@wgbh.org
Internet: http://www.wgbh.org/
Description: The Caption Center's mission is to provide the widest possible access to television and video for deaf and hard-of-hearing people. The Caption Center was WGBH's first venture into the field of accessible media. The CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) continues the tradition of reaching out to under-served audiences excluded from mass media due to language, geographic or physical barriers. They provide captioning services, descriptive video, assistance on making your web site accessible, and access symbols to download for brochures and web site publications.

The National Captioning Institute (NCI)
California Office
303 North Glenoaks Boulevard, Suite 200
Burbank, CA 91502
Phone: (818) 238-0068
Fax: (818) 238-4266
Email: esarna@ncicap.org
Internet: http://www.ncicap.org/
Description: NCI is a nonprofit company that introduced closed captioning on network television in 1980 and remains the global captioning leader. Services include closed captioning for prerecorded and live video programming; subtitling and language translation services for videos and DVDs; and described video service to make television programming accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired. NCI now offers a help desk that is designed to provide information on topics such as the availability of captioned programming, how to resolve problems with displaying captions, accessibility of closed captions in Spanish and on DVD's and home videos. Go to http://www.ncihelpdesk.org/

Visual Language Interpreting
1330 New Hampshire Ave, NW.
Suite B1
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 464-6805
TDD: (202) 464-6800
Fax: (202) 464-6810
Email: info@vli-dc.com
Internet: http://www.vli-dc.com
Description: Visual Language Interpreting (VLI) provides communication access services, including sign language Interpreting and Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART). We guarantee certified practitioners for each assignment.

711 Relay Service
Description: From anywhere in the US you can access relay service by dialing 711. It is available to all callers, whether using wire line, wireless, or pay phone. If you can not get 711 TRS Access then call (888) Tell-FCC. [will they connect you to speech to speech services as well? Find out]

Communication Access Network (CAN)
925 Wappoo Road, Ste. B
Charleston, SC 29407
Phone: (843) 763-3890
TDD: (843) 763-3944
Fax: (843) 571-6325
Email: info@caninterpreters.com
Internet: http://www.caninterpreters.com/
Description: Communication Access Network, Inc. is committed to providing comprehensive communications services to its customers. Through their network of interpreters, captioners and independent consultants organizations can achieve full compliance with existing laws (ADA, Section 504, IDEA) related to Deaf and Hard of Hearing communication access. They just released a new distance video interpreting service at www.MyVideoInterpreter.com which provides secure point to point video and audio communications via the internet. They serve people in South Carolina, Georgia, and DC. Their network of interpreters are located across the United States.
Mailing Address
CAN of America, Inc.
PO Box 55293
Washington, DC 20040

Speech to Speech (STS)
Federal Communications Commision
445 12th Street SW
Washington, DC 20554
Phone: (888) 225-5322
Fax: (866) 418-0232
Email: fccinfo@fcc.gov
Internet: http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/dro/sts.html
Description: Speech to Speech Relay is a nationwide toll free telephone service that enables people with speech disabilities who have great difficulty communicating to use a telephone with the assistance. STS is a form of Relay Services that provides Communications Assistants (CAs) for people with speech disabilities who have difficulty being understood on the phone. STS CAs are trained individuals familiar with many different speech patterns and language recognition skills. The CA makes the call and repeats the words exactly. Individuals using STS include those with cerebral palsy, Parkinson's disease, a laryngectomy, ALS, stuttering, muscular dystrophy, stroke, and other conditions affecting clarity of speech. Call the number in your state and ask the CA to dial the number you wish to call. For inquiries or concerns about STS contact the FCC via Email at: fccinfo@fcc.gov

Graphic Artists Guild Foundation
Disability Access Symbols
32 Broadway Ste 1114
New York , NY 10004
Phone: (212) 791-3400
Fax: (212) 791-0333
Email: execdir@gag.org
Internet: http://www.gag.org/resources/das.php
Description: Twelve symbols were created by the Disability Access Symbols Project and produced by the Graphic Artists Guild Foundation to help organizations advertise their services to customers, audiences, staff and other targeted publics. Advertisements, newsletters, conference and program brochures, membership forms, building signage, floor plans and maps are examples of material that might display these symbols. Available free for download at the Internet site.

The Caption Center at WGBH
300 East Magnolia Blvd., #201
Burbank, CA 91502
Phone: (818) 562-3344
Fax: (818) 562-3388
Email: access@wgbh.org
Internet: http://www.wgbh.org/
Description: The Caption Center's mission is to provide the widest possible access to television and video for deaf and hard-of-hearing people. The Caption Center was WGBH's first venture into the field of accessible media. The CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) continues the tradition of reaching out to under-served audiences excluded from mass media due to language, geographic or physical barriers. They provide captioning services, descriptive video, assistance on making your web site accessible, and access symbols to download for brochures and web site publications.

Job Accommodation Network
West Virginia University
US D.O.L. Office of Disability and Employment Policy
PO Box 6080
Morgantown, WV 26506-6080
Phone: (800) 232-9675
TDD: (800) 526-7234
Fax: (304) 293-5407
Email: jan@jan.wvu.edu
Internet: http://www.jan.wvu.edu
Description: JAN is a toll-free consulting service that provides information about job accommodations and the employability of people with disabilities. They also offer free product and vendor information pertaining to services for individuals with disabilities (i.e., oral interpreters, captioning, Braille). This information is provided at no charge to employers, rehabilitation professionals, and people with disabilities throughout the United States.

Contact your local Independent Living Center at your Local University or Community College Contact your local university or community college Office for Student for Disabilities to locate assistive listening, audio description, Braille, captioning, products, signage, and sign language interpreters in your community. You may also utilize your local Independent Living Center for recommendations for products and services. To find a independent living center in your state see http://www.calsilc.org/silcs.html

AUDIOVISION
1503 Alta Glen Dr.
San Jose , CA 95125
Phone: (408) 265-2203
TDD: (415) 641-4589
Fax: (408) 265-2204
Email: katiemags@aol.com
Internet: http://www.audiovision.org
Description:

AUDIOVISION is a service provider of audio description for theatre, festivals, sports, museums, parks, and educational films in the Bay Area.

She is willing to be contacted about: advocacy, new venues, collaborations, partnerships, etc.


LecShare
1204 Fairlane Road
Cary, NC 27511
Phone: 919.413.2100
Email: 919.882.1275
Internet: http://www.lecshare.com/about.htm
Description:

LecShare, Inc. was formed to meet the needs of the accessibility communities in higher education settings, but our commitment does not stop at higher education. We are committed to serving anyone who has an interest in making the Internet accessible to everyone.

Our goal is to make the creation of accessible online content as easy as possible, especially online narrated presentations. Microsoft PowerPoint is the preferred tool of many educators and presenters in creating and delivering their lectures, so we designed LecShare and LecShare Pro around what they already know how to use.

The employees at LecShare, Inc. have experience in teaching courses in instructional technology tools for higher education, using instructional technologies in developing online content, adapting already created online content to meet Federal accessibility standards, software design for the Macintosh and Windows platforms, and teaching at the university level.

We welcome and encourage suggestions from our users about features they would like to have added, or ways to make the software work better. Many of the features in LecShare and LecShare Pro are the direct result of our users' suggestions. You may send suggestions to support@lecshare.com.


National Center on Deafness, CSUN
18111 Nordhoff St, Maildrop 8267
Northridge, CA 91330-8267
Phone: (818) 677-2611
Fax: (818) 677-4899
Email: ncod@csun.edu
Internet: http://ncod.csun.edu/
Description:

The National Center on Deafness (NCOD) at California State University, Northridge, has been in existence since 1962. It continues to maintain a leading position in providing extensive student services in a mainstreamed setting. Some of the services that NCOD offers include: tutoring, counseling, interpreting (sign, oral, and deaf-blind), real-time captioning, and speech and hearing referral services.


QuikScrybe, Inc.
1723 Sumac Street
Longmont, CO 80501
Phone: (303) 485-6895
Email: quikscrybe@comcast.net
Internet: http://www.quikscrybe.com/
Description: They are a fast, reliable company which transcribes documents into Braille. Since 1984, we have transcribed into Braille; catalogs, menus, personal letters, flyers, brochures, textbooks, manuals, etc. With speed and reliability. Now, QUIK-SCRYBE has gone interpoint.

QUIK SCRYBE is the one stop place to have your documents converted from print and diskette into Braille. We accept most textual materials, excluding math, languages, and musical notations.


The National Captioning Institute
1900 Gallows Road, Suite 3000
Vienna, VA 22182
Phone: (703) 917-7693
Fax: (703) 917-9853
Email: jsnyder@ncicap.org
Internet: http://www.ncicap.org
Description:

 NCI provides domestic and international captioning, subtitling and described video for broadcast and cablecast television programs, home video programs, TV commercials, corporations and government agencies.


The Sign Language Company
14203 Califa Street
Van Nuys, CA 91401-3613
Phone: (818) 782-6002
Fax: (818) 994-3214
Email: scriptla@aol.com
Internet: http://www.signlanguageco.com/
Description:

The Sign Language Company is a full service interpreting agency which also provides interpreters, consultants, and tutors for the entertainment industry for film, television, and live theatre since 1984.


United TTY Sales and Service
21004 Brooke Knolls Rd.
Laytonsville, MD 20882
Phone: (866) 889-4872
TDD: (301) 926-2365
Fax: (301) 963-0785
Email: info@unitedtty.com
Internet: http://www.UnitedTTY.com
Description:

United TTY Sales and Service (UTSS) is a leading provider of Assistive Technology for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. UTSS also is a national TTY repair center. Online

Showroom available at www.UnitedTTY.com featuring Discount Prices, Secure Shopping and Free Shipping


WGBH Educational Foundation
The National Center for Accessible Media
PO Box 200
Boston , MA 01234
Phone: (617) 300-5400
Fax: (617) 300-4433
Email: ncam@wgbh.org
Internet: http://www.wgbh.org
Description:

WGBH has several media projects designed to reach out to under-served audiences excluded from mass media due to language, geographic or physical barriers. Projects include the CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM), Captioning, and Descriptive Video Services.


The Writing C.L.A.W.
5212 Northland DR. NE
Suite 208
Grand Rapids, MI 49525-1066
Phone: (616) 262-5364
Fax: (616) 855-5500
Email: bschroder@writingclaw.com
Internet: http://www.writingclaw.com
Description:

The Writing C.L.A.W. allows persons with hand, arm, or sight disabilites
to hold onto a variety of "creating instruments" in comfort without
dropping them. The C.L.A.W. can be used with, but not limited to: Paint
brushes, pens, pencils, crayons, and side walk chalk.


Accommodating Ideas, Inc.
3807 West Sierra Hwy
#6 PMB 4535
Acton, CA 93510
Phone: (818) 386-6348
TDD: (877) 237-3031
Fax: (818) 386-6352
Email: aiterps@ai-ada.com
Internet: http://www.ai-ada.com
Description: Accommodating Ideas, Inc. has been providing certified sign language interpreters, nationally, for a variety of situations, including legal to theatrical, for the past ten years. They are a nationwide company centralized in Los Angeles, Miami, and Fort Lauderdale Florida. They provide customized personnel training for employment or customer service. Training is available related to the Americans with Disabilities Act, general disability awareness and sensitivity, or specifically, access for people who are deaf.

ASL Interpreter Referral Service
PO Box 1161
Somerset, NJ, NJ 08873
Phone: (800) 275-7551
TDD: (800) 275-5599
Fax: (732) 873-6405
Internet: http://www.aslirs.com
Description: ASL Interpreter Referral Service provides sign language interpreters 24 hours a day, nationwide. In addition, they offer educational and equipment referral service along with American With Disabilities Act (ADA) training, as well as basic sign language training.

Communication Access Network
925 Wappoo Road, Ste. B
Charleston, SC 29407
Phone: (843) 763-3890
TDD: (877) 411-8377
Fax: (843) 571-6325
Email: request@caninterpreters.com
Internet: http://www.caninterpreters.com/
Description: Communication Access Network, Inc. is committed to providing comprehensive communications services to its customers. Through their network of interpreters, Captioners and independent consultants organizations can achieve full compliance with existing laws (ADA, Section 504, IDEA) related to Deaf and Hard of Hearing communication access. They just released a new distance video interpreting service at http://www.myvideointerpreter.com / which provides secure point to point video and audio communications via the internet. They serve people in South Carolina, Georgia, and DC. Their network of interpreters are located across the United States.

Daryl Crouse
Long Beach , CA Phone: (562) 342-4246
Email: daryl@darylcrouse.com
Internet: http://www.darylcrouse.com/index.php
Description:

Daryl Crouse, CI, CT - Certified Sign Language Interpreter - Serving Southern California.


Deaf-Hearing Communication Center (DHCC)
630 Fairview Road, Suite 100
Swarthmore, PA 19081
Phone: (610) 604-0450
TDD: (610) 604-0450
Fax: (610) 604-0456
Email: info@dhcc.org
Internet: http://www.dhcc.org/
Description: Deaf-Hearing Communication Center provides interpreters, real-time captioners, 24 ER interpreters, sensitivity training, ASL classes, and information and referral in Pennsylvania, Northern Delaware, and Southern New Jersey as well.

Hands On Sign Language Services
595 Menlo Dr
Rockland, CA 95765
Phone: (800) 900-9478
TDD: (800) 900-9479
Fax: (888) 900-9477
Email: dobray@handsonsvs.com
Internet: http://www.handsonsvs.com/
Description: On Sign Language Services provides 24-Hour interpreting services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing throughout the United States, with emergency services centralizing in Northern California and Nevada.

Network Interpreting Service (NIS) LLC
322 East Main Steet #300
Burley, ID 83318
Phone: (800) 284-1043
TDD: (800) 284-5176
Fax: (815) 425-9244
Email: nis@aslnis.com
Internet: http://www.aslnis.com/
Description: Network Interpreting Service LLC is a scheduling service that coordinates and supplies American Sign Language interpreting services. Their service area primarily covers California, Utah, and Idaho, Northern Nevada and Northern Arizona.

Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID)
333 Commerce Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: (703) 838-0030
TDD: (703) 838-0459
Fax: (703) 838-0454
Email: membasst@rid.org
Internet: http://www.rid.org/
Description: The mission of the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, Inc. is to provide international, national, regional, state, and local forums an organizational structure for the continued growth and development of the professions of interpretation and transliteration of American sign language and English. They have a searchable database for interpreters by name and state.

Sign Language Associates, Inc.
11002 Veirs Mill Rd, Suite 506
Silver Spring, MD 20902
Phone: (301) 946-9710
TDD: 301) 946-9710
Fax: (301) 946-9685
Email: info@signlanguage.com
Internet: http://www.signlanguage.com/
Description: SLA was established in 1982 when eight sign language interpreters decided to pool their resources and formed a company in order to meet the specific needs of their clients, consumers and fellow interpreters. Today, SLA is still interpreter owned and run and at present has a staff of forty-eight (48) professional interpreters, seven (7) temporary staff interpreter positions within their nationally recognized Mentor Program and over two hundred (200+) qualified part-time interpreters. 85% of SLA's full-time staff interpreters hold National Certification. Sign Language Associates, Inc. provides quality interpreting services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in the Washington, DC metro area & in all 50 states.

CAP: Accommodations and Services: Interpreter Database
Internet: http://www.tricare.osd.mil/cap/

Accessign International
21016 45th Ave., S.E.
Bothell, WA 98021
Phone: (888) 207-1778
Fax: (425) 424-9766
Email: sales@accessign.com
Internet: http://www.accessign.com/
Description: Accessign has been manufacturing high quality Architectural Signage and ADA Compliant Raised Lettering & Grade 2 Braille Signage Systems since 1987. All of their signs are custom manufactured in-house to their clients specifications, and color matched to fit their decor.

APCO
388 Grant Street SE
Atlanta, GA 30312-2227
Phone: (404) 688-9000
TDD: (877) 988-2726
Fax: (404) 577-3847
Email: sales@apcosigns.com
Internet: http://www.apcosigns.com/
Description: APCO manufactures high quality Architectural Signage and ADA Compliant signs. Signs are custom manufactured in-house according to clients specifications.

Inter Sign National Incorporated
1123 East Baltimore Street
P.O. Box 1123
Baltimore, MD 21203-1123
Phone: (410) 342-9200
Fax: (410) 342-8276
Email: sales@intersignnational.com
Internet: http://www.intersignnational.com
Description: Inter Sign National Incorporated manufacturers interior architectural signage. Inter Sign specializes in ADA and ANSI compliant signs. All signs are custom made to order.

SCOTT Sign Systems Incorporated
PO Box 1047
Tallevast, FL 34270-1047
Phone: (800) 237-9447
TDD: (941) 355-5171
Fax: (941) 351-1787
Email: mail@scottsigns.com
Internet: http://www.scottsigns.com/
Description: SCOTT Signs has researched and developed the most complete line of ADA sign products available, Whether retrofitting existing signs or designing complete architectural sign systems SCOTT offers standard and custom signage in a wide range of colors and materials.

Syntech Burlington, Inc.
3653 East Allmance Road
Burlington, NC , NC 27215
Phone: (336) 570-2035
TDD: (800) 600-4232
Fax: (336) 570-0429
Email: syntech@syntechsigns.com
Internet: http://www.syntechsigns.com/
Description: Syntech is a sign manufacturing company whose primary focus has been the manufacture of ADA (Americans With Disabilities Act, 1991) signs.

Zax Signage
28 Charron Ave, Units 4, 5 & 6
Box 350
Nashua, NH 03063
Phone: (800) 258-1566
Fax: (603) 883-6395
Email: info@zaxcorp.com
Internet: http://www.zaxcorp.com/
Description: Zax Corporation is a premier manufacturer of quality signage, as well as donor recognition systems and award plaques. While Zax offers a wide range of custom interior and exterior signs, the company is renowned worldwide for its ability to design and produce cast and custom-engraved recognition systems to meet the particular needs of companies, individuals, and associations.

See DISABILITY ACCESS SYMBOLS

Door Pressure Gauges
Order from:
HMC, International Division Inc.
5996 South Crocker Street
Littleton , CO 80120-2054
Phone: (303) 794-2510
Fax: (303) 794-3703
Email: info@hmc-international.com
Internet: http://www.hmc-international.com/
Description: The ADA requires that both interior and exterior doors of a building be accessible. The door pressure gauges assess the force of the door.

Sachs Morgan Studio
224 West 30th Street, Suite 1400
New York, NY 10001
Phone: (212) 765-4144
Fax: (212) 765-4142
Email: info@sachsmorganstudio.com
Internet: http://www.sachsmorganstudio.com
Description: Sachs Morgan Studio (SMS), Theatre Design Specialists provides comprehensive services for the planning and design of theatres, including space planning and programming, conceptual design and specification of theatre equipment, and stage technology and interior design. SMS has specific expertise in developing solutions to the problems of poor access. Experts in historic properties, SMS renovated the historic Opera House at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, receiving the 1997 American Institute of Architects Award.

See Also: Annotated List of Publications About Services and Accommodations for Artists and Patrons with Disabilities
You may contact disability organizations in your state to inquire about local providers see: State Agencies and Organizations for ADA Compliance and Technical Assistance.

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