TDI 2007 Convention

TDI's 17th Biennial International Conference and Expo will take place in San Mateo, CA from August 23 - 25, 2007. This convention is the place to be if you're interested in how people with hearing loss are affected by what's happening in the telecommunications world.

Here's the Call for Presentation Proposals.

We'll begin our coverage of this convention with articles about the workshops. Non-workshop coverage begins here.

Workshop Articles

Using Video Interpreters to Combat Interpreter Shortage

Making Captioned Radio a Reality

New Toys and Tools: Speech Recognition and Video Chat

TV Captioning Issues

Captioned Telephone

Captioning and Audio Description for DVD and Multimedia Environment

Panel on High Definition TV Issues

Non-workshop Articles

Cheryl Heppner is first with convention coverage as usual! Here's her report on her trip to the conference and her arrival on Thursday night.

Here's Cheryl's second report from the TDI Conference. It's sort of a "who's who" of some of the folks in attendance.

TDI Conference Opening Ceremony

Keynote Presentation by Deborah Kaplan, the Director of Accessible Technology at the California State University (CSU) system

Here's Cheryl's coverage of the Award Luncheon

Alan Hurwitz's Professional Luncheon Presentation