Did you know...

...that KCDHH is now accepting applications for free pagers?

Posted on December 10, 2009

The Kentucky Commission on the Deaf and Hard of Hearing are now accepting applications for free pagers. To get your application, simply go to their online form then select "Telecommunications Access Program (TAP)" and then complete the form and submit. They will then send you an application to complete and return. Cole Zulauf, Document Processing Specialist III at KCDHH, said:

"The Kentucky Commission on the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (KCDHH) is currently working with the Department of Finance for the wireless pagers. The process is in the bidding phase and it is anticipated to take another month for this process to complete. You will be notified as soon as a vendor and pager has been selected."

If you have any questions or need more information, please contact KCDHH.

...that if your car breaks down on some Kentucky highways, you can get help through email?

Posted on March 13, 2009

If your car breaks down on specific major highways in Kentucky and you need to reach someone for help, you can use your pager to send an email to Kentucky Transportation Cabinet's "Safe Patrol" and someone will come out to help you. This service has been available for a while and hearing people have been able to call for help when they were stranded on a highway. The good news is that the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has made this service accessible to deaf people using pagers.

The email address to contact Safe Patrol is kytctocadministration@ky.gov. Be sure to save this address in your pager's address book or write it down and keep it in your car.

You can get more detailed information directly from the Safe Patrol website or a flyer from KCDHH.

...that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has become more accessible to the deaf?

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Posted on January 22, 2009

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has their own YouTube Channel complete with ASL/captioned videos!

It's that dreaded time of year again for Americans...TAXES! Everyone hates to do their taxes especially because it can be very confusing. To make matters worse, information about taxes has been rather inaccessible to deaf people. Perhaps the IRS understands this since they are now releasing ASL/captioned videos. After all, taxpayers are taxpayers regardless of whether they can hear.

An example video explains that if you meet certain criteria, you can e-file your taxes free of charge. Who knew?

Before you start sweating over all those tax forms, be sure to take a look at the videos on the IRS YouTube Channel. Maybe you'll learn something and save yourself a headache!

...that Governor Beshear regularly releases captioned videos?

Posted on December 10, 2009

Governor Beshear regularly releases videos "About Kentucky" in his YouTube Channel . The great news about this is that he has made them accessible to deaf and hard of hearing Kentuckians by captioning them! Here's one such video:

At the time of this writing there were 27 captioned videos available for you to watch and more are being added as time goes by. Be an informed Kentuckian and always know what our Kentucky government is up to by being sure to regularly visit Governor Beshear's YouTube channel!