The Rural Domestic Preparedness Training Center announces:
Emergency Responders and the Hard of Hearing Community: Taking the First Steps to Disaster Preparedness
Delivered by Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Inc. (TDI)
Jackson Center for Independent Living,
1981 Hollywood Drive, Jackson, TN 38305
Monday, February 25, 2008 - 8am-5pm

This course provided participants with an understanding of the tools and knowledge needed to prepare a community response, as well as respond to and recover from emergencies ranging from weather-related emergencies to a terrorist attack, for deaf, hard of hearing, late-deafened, and deaf-blind individuals.

Audience:  This course was designed to provide deaf and hard of hearing (including deaf, deaf-blind, hard of hearing, late-deafened and other individuals with hearing loss) and emergency responders with the basic skills they need to communicate with each other in the event of emergencies such as terrorist attacks and natural and biological disasters.

Participants will gained the skills they need to prepare for and respond to an emergency situation involving individuals who are deaf, deaf-blind, hard of hearing or late-deafened. The course materials trained participants to identify and recruit those in their neighborhood whose daily activities place them in a unique position to identify potential barriers to effective communication as well as proven solutions to work around such obstacles.