EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL
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 students 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 former Columbia University student established this charity to help visual and hearing impaired students gain access to the full university experience.
Our team's expertise is finding students the resources they may need.
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.
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 grass-root charity surrounded by a team of experts in their respective fields. Svetlana Tikhonova as a former Columbia University student established this charity to help visual and hearing impaired students gain access to the full university experience.
Our team's expertise is finding students the resources they may need.
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.
Approved for 501 (c)(3) and classified as a public charity under IRS section 170 b (1) (A) (vi) effected 06/01/2020.
CHARITY EVENT MAY 2021
SUPPORTING VISUALLY
IMPAIRED ARTISTS
CHARITY FUNDRAISER: LIHTAR DEVICE DEVELOPMENT & 3D BRAILLE PRINTER
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SUPPORTING VISUALLY
IMPAIRED ARTISTS
CHARITY FUNDRAISER: LIHTAR DEVICE DEVELOPMENT & 3D BRAILLE PRINTER
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Main Tasks and Objectives
Expand educational opportunities by allocating grants for individuals with hearing and vision disabilities in 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 including reading material to braille or audio recordings interpretation.
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Protect the rights and represent visually and hearing-impaired students' interests.
Bring inspiration and innovation to open all doors for deafblind, deaf and visually impaired students.
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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.
Fund Objectives
Funding will help students gain access to a curriculum with both significant vision and hearing loss by providing telecommunications equipment for curriculum accessibility.
Our main tasks and objectives:
The Deaf Blindness Help Inc provides grants for students with hearing and vision disabilities in obtaining higher education in the USA. We assist with housing and other living expenses during college for students.
The Deaf Blindness Help Inc assists students with:
- 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 provides grants for students with hearing and vision disabilities in obtaining higher education in the USA. We assist with housing and other living expenses during college for students.
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.