Deaf Blindness Help Inc
Our Mission
Bring inspiration and innovation to open all doors for deafblind, deaf, and visually impaired students.
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door
that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
— Helen Keller, We Bereaved (1929)
Bring inspiration and innovation to open all doors for deafblind, deaf, and visually impaired students.
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door
that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
— Helen Keller, We Bereaved (1929)
What we believe
We believe that students who are deafblind, deaf, and visually impaired are valued members of our society and
they have superpowers. We believe that their brain rewires itself to boost the remaining senses.
About us
Approved for 501 (c)(3) and classified as a public charity under
IRS section 170 b (1) (A) (vi) effected 06/01/2020.
The Deaf Blindness Help Inc is a nonprofit 501 (c) (3) organization created to support students who are deafblind, deaf, and visually impaired. Our mission is to provide accessibility for the visually and hearing impaired through the higher education experience and beyond.
The Deaf Blindness Help Inc is a grass-root charity surrounded by a team of experts in their respective fields. Svetlana Tikhonova as a formal Columbia University student has established this charity to help the visual and hearing impaired to gain access to the full university experience.
Our team's area of expertise is finding students and needed resources. We are seeking to strike a partnership with other universities, who could provide the instruction/curriculum needed to be interpreted, student seats, and some funding for the technology and students.
The Deaf Blindness Help Inc supports students to gain access to a curriculum with both significant vision and hearing loss with equipment and training allowing them to study and work. Finding sources of funding for individuals wishing to get assistance obtaining telecommunications equipment for curriculum accessibility.
Our main tasks and objectives:
The Deaf Blindness Help Inc assists students with:
Our main tasks and objectives:
- Expand educational opportunities by allocating grants for individuals with hearing and vision disabilities in their effort to obtain higher education in the USA.
- Assist students with visual and hearing disabilities in gaining access or increased access to communication in online and on-campus classes via text or video through current technologies.
- Assist students with visual and hearing disabilities in finding interpreter services.
- Assist students with visual and hearing disabilities in finding interpreting reading material to braille or audio recordings.
- Protect the rights and represent visually and hearing-impaired students' interests in the USA higher education institutions.
The Deaf Blindness Help Inc assists students with:
- understanding classroom lectures
- participating in class discussions
- presenting oral reports
- fulfilling reading assignments
- The Deaf Blindness Help Inc provides financial assistance for deafblind, deaf, and visually impaired students to study in the USA.
- The Deaf Blindness Help Inc helps and represents deafblind, deaf, and visually impaired students' interests in higher education.
Education
Expand educational opportunities by allocating grants for individuals with hearing and vision disabilities in their effort to obtain higher education in the USA.
Sources
Find sources for the Deaf Interpreters services for both online and on campuses classes. As well as sources to interpret reading (curriculum) material for braille or audio recordings.
Assistance
Assist students with hearing and vision disabilities in gaining access to communication in both online and offline classes via text or video with available assistive technology.
Protection
Protect the rights and represent visually and hearing - impaired students' interests in US higher education institutions.
Focus Areas and Activities
1. Creating a program for students with hearing and vision disabilities to access financial assistance for housing and living expenses during college for students
2. Rendering organizational and technical assistance for students with hearing and vision disabilities in achieving higher education
3. Providing grants for students with hearing and vision disabilities in their effort to obtain higher education in the USA
2. Rendering organizational and technical assistance for students with hearing and vision disabilities in achieving higher education
3. Providing grants for students with hearing and vision disabilities in their effort to obtain higher education in the USA
Interpreting Services
Find sources for the Deaf & Blind Interpreters services for both online and on campuses classes (braille or other assistive technology).
Grants Allocation
Expand educational opportunities by allocating grants for individuals with hearing and vision disabilities in their effort to obtain higher education in the USA.
Communication Access
Assist students with hearing and vision disabilities in gaining access to communication in both online and offline classes via text or video with AT.