Over the last several years, HLAA has supported the Captioned Radio Project developed by National Public Radio (NPR). It is a project whose goal is to provide a text version of radio programming broadcast over digital radio.
HLAA is sending a letter to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to urge them to provide funding for this project. http://www.hearingloss.org/advocacy/index.asp#radio
We are looking for more organizations, and chapters of national organizations, to sign onto that letter. Cheryl Heppner from the Northern Virginia Resource Center for Deaf & Hard of Hearing People is working with us to find sign-on's to our letter.
We believe that we are very close to success. Plans were being made for a captioned radio pilot project funded by CPB, but they pulled back when Congress began to talk about cutting their funding. We'd like CPB to reconsider this decision, so we have drafted a letter to them and are looking for signatures from heads of organizations who want to see captioned radio become a reality.
If you'd like to have your organization or chapter listed as one of those signing this letter, please email LHamlin@hearingloss.org by 5 pm ET on Friday, May 20, 2011.
Provide the full name of your organization and the name of the individual who should be listed as signing on behalf of the organization.
Thank you!
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