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Making Your Meetings Deaf-Friendly

PCMA Convene

Deaf people access information with their eyes, so they rely on ASL, interpreters, or captioning in real time (CART) when watching a presentation or speaker. Paul, and Los Angeles. “We Can a restaurant turn up the lights in certain areas? And how will servers communicate with Deaf guests? I’ve sort of been on a mission since NAD.

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How Inclusive Are Your Meetings?

PCMA Convene

For the 2017 Annual Conference in Roanoke, Virginia, next month, AORE asked presenters to self-identify in a number of categories, including race, gender, and sexual orientation, in order to bring in a more inclusive speaker lineup. Dorie Clark ‘Organizers [choose] speakers from, or recommended by, one’s often-homogenous social network.’.