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Community Resource Directory is new tool for deaf community - RocNow.com
A new online directory can link people who are deaf and their friends and family with community resources, including people who want to provide professional services.
The Online Community Resource Directory contains information about employment, housing, health and human services, government, recreation and other topics. The resource covers primarily the greater Rochester area, but there are national agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service, which have videos in American Sign Language.
Each listing gives a description of the service or organization, and icons show the types of accessibility services or tools. The “Be a Smart Consumer” button links to a YouTube video in ASL that encourages people who are deaf or hard of hearing to be wise consumers.
The resource was developed by the National Center for Deaf Health Research at the University of Rochester Medical Center, at the urging of its director, Dr. Thomas Pearson.
“He felt very strongly that … he wanted to give back something to the community for their partnerships with us for the last six-plus years,” Matthew Starr, communication team leader for NCDHR, wrote in an e-mail.
This isn’t the first such directory serving the area. Dating to the mid-1980s, the Monroe County Association for Hearing Impaired People produced five paper editions. But up to 20 percent of the information was obsolete shortly after printing because of changes in phone numbers or staff members of the listed agencies. The new resource will be a living document.
“With this online, we can make changes immediately,” Starr wrote.
The directory also is a work in progress. Agencies or programs that want to be listed can submit information online that will be reviewed before it is included, he wrote.
A new online directory can link people who are deaf and their friends and family with community resources, including people who want to provide professional services.
The Online Community Resource Directory contains information about employment, housing, health and human services, government, recreation and other topics. The resource covers primarily the greater Rochester area, but there are national agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service, which have videos in American Sign Language.
Each listing gives a description of the service or organization, and icons show the types of accessibility services or tools. The “Be a Smart Consumer” button links to a YouTube video in ASL that encourages people who are deaf or hard of hearing to be wise consumers.
The resource was developed by the National Center for Deaf Health Research at the University of Rochester Medical Center, at the urging of its director, Dr. Thomas Pearson.
“He felt very strongly that … he wanted to give back something to the community for their partnerships with us for the last six-plus years,” Matthew Starr, communication team leader for NCDHR, wrote in an e-mail.
This isn’t the first such directory serving the area. Dating to the mid-1980s, the Monroe County Association for Hearing Impaired People produced five paper editions. But up to 20 percent of the information was obsolete shortly after printing because of changes in phone numbers or staff members of the listed agencies. The new resource will be a living document.
“With this online, we can make changes immediately,” Starr wrote.
The directory also is a work in progress. Agencies or programs that want to be listed can submit information online that will be reviewed before it is included, he wrote.