The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) is the nation’s premier civil rights organization of, by and for deaf and hard of hearing individuals in the United States of America. Read more...
TDI shapes America’s public policy in telecommunications, media, and information technology to advance the interests of all people who are deaf, hard of hearing, late-deafened, deafblind, and deaf-plus (with other disabilities). TDI is a leading national organization that proposes public policy in areas of Video Relay Service, Closed Captioning, Emergency Communications, and more. TDI hosts a bienniel conference during in Read more...
In 1968, TDI compiled a TTY directory of 174 deaf and hard of hearing people whom had obtained a Text Telephone / Teletypewriter (TTY). For the next 50 years, the Blue Book grew into a national directory and resource guide for the deaf and hard of hearing community to find the TTY (and later videophones and emails) number of their friends, local businesses and government agencies.
