Gracias VRS Supports the NAD Request to the FCC to Give Equal Telephone Access to the Deaf

Gracias VRS is a provider of VRS, giving equal communication opportunity to the deaf community. This federally funded service (through FCC and NECA) may be in jeopardy without your support. Gracias VRS service is here to stay, however, new restrictions may limit VRS calls that are important to the deaf community.

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With tax season in full swing, did you know that deaf and hard of hearing consumers can find answers to their tax questions directly from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in American Sign Language (ASL)?

The IRS has built a YouTube channel complete with a series of ASL videos-that are also voiced and captioned-on a myriad of tax topics, including e-File and Direct Deposit, Free File and Fillable Forms, Education Tax Credits,...

Many federal laws have been enacted to require greater access to telecommunications. There is only one problem – the federal laws that we worked so hard to enact over the past 20 years have not kept pace with many new technologies. For instance, television shows that are re-shown over the Internet are under no requirement to be captioned – even if they had captions when they were shown on TV! Also, small TVs, cell phones, PDAs,...

GraciasVRS and ASL Services, Inc were proud sponsors of TERPEXPO in Denver, Colorado.

Angela Roth, President and CEO of both companies presented a ground breaking conference titled “Cultural Misunderstandings between Latinos and Non-Latinos”. Also with her, was Professor Sergio Peña, from Tijuana, Mexico presented a linguistically oriented conference titled “English-Spanish, Using False and Real...

FRID 2009 Conference was held on October 22nd-25th at the Florida Mall Hotel in Orlando, Florida. The theme of the Conference was “Collaboration Promotes Community”.

As a sister company of GraciasVRS, ASL Services, Inc was proud to support the 2009 FRID Conference both as an exhibitor, a silent auction participant and as a banquet sponsor. In addition, we were happy to work hard with our scheduling team to allow many of our...

GraciasVRS is Proud to sponsor the 1st Tri-Lingual Track for the TERPExpo series of conferences!

The TERPExpo Conference is being held Friday, November 6th –Sunday, November 8th in Denver, Colorado, and is attracting a bigger and bigger pool of interpreters each year. The level of expertise inside workshops presented within the Tri-Lingual Track is unparalleled.

The Tri-Lingual track will be from 8am-6pm on FRIDAY and will...