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Making Your Meetings Deaf-Friendly

PCMA Convene

Return Business  Many attendees reported that NAD 2016 was one of the best conferences they had ever been to. She’d arrived in Phoenix to lead a two-hour workshop on Deaf-friendly customer service — a prelude to the National Association of the Deaf’s (NAD) annual conference at the Phoenix Convention Center on July 5–9.

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How Inclusive Are Your Meetings?

PCMA Convene

As Stacy Bare paced the stage at the Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education’s (AORE) 2014 Annual Conference, he observed the crowd. AORE’s Annual Conference reflected the industry’s homogeneity. Coming out of that 2014 conference,” Wolowiec said, “we said, ‘There needs to be a change.’”. Illustration by Ping Zhu.