Telecommunications Relay Services report and Speech-To-Speech Services for individuals with hearing and speech disabilities. -July 2004

ACTION ALERT!! Help increase movie captioning. Senator Dayton Movie Captioning Amendment. -July 2004

Harkin urges reversal of captioning decisions disallowing funding for certain programming. -April 2004

NAD Board approves New Youth Service Award to be presented during the 47th Biennial NAD Conference in Kansas City, MO, July 6-10, 2004. -March 2004

NAD Update on Captioning Censorship. NAD has been working with the National Council on Disability to have the Department reverse its decision. -February 2004

Government cuts funding for Closed-Captioning angers advocates for the deaf. -February 2004

Hearing aids require new cell phone changes in 3 years. The FCC adopted rules requiring cell-phone makers and service providers to develop digital wireless phones that are more compatible with hearing aids. -July 2003

FCC acts to promote accessibility of Digital Wireless Phones to individuals with hearing disabilities. -July 2003

Being proactive, a number of bills have been introduced that could benefit some or all deaf and hard of hearing individuals. -April 2003

Successful meetings which include interpreters create a more dynamic to your planed meetings. -February 2003

Let’s Go Read The Movies! The national Coalition for Movie Captioning's goal is to make it possible for individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing, and late-deafened to attend any showing of any movie in any theater, with equal access through high quality captioning. -January 2003

Settlement reached in UC Disability Lawsuit. UC agreed to change the way it accommodates hearing disabilities after recently settling a class action lawsuit brought by students from its Berkeley and Davis campuses. -November 2002

$930,000 Grant for hearing-impaired students. California State University, NCOD has been awarded a grant by the federal government for an innovative program that helps educate deaf and hard-of-hearing students. -November 2002

URGENT ACTION ALERT: FCC emergency information access complaints. If you had experienced a disaster recently AND your local television station did not make their emergency bulletins accessible to you, PLEASE file a complaint with the FCC. -September 2002

Deaf mechanic wins employment suit against United Airlines. Five years of frustration ended when a federal judge ruled that United Airlines offer a job and lost wages. -August 2002

Sprint Relay Online sm, available to the public at no cost to all Deaf or Hard of Hearing TRS users in the United States. -July 2002

Sprint announces Internet Relay Service For Deaf. Nationwide computer service is new way to phone. -July 2002

First National Video Relay Service debuts for deaf. Sprint and CSD have initiated the first nationwide Video Relay Service (VRS) for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. -May 2002

CSAVR Committee Re-Established. -March 2002

NAD/FCC. -January 2002

Human Services appropriations for 2002. -January 2002

Shop at home victory for the NAD. -June 2001