EASI News for You Feb. 2 1998
EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information) is an affiliate of the
American Association for Higher Education: http://www.rit.edu/~easi
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       World's Largest Conference On Disabilities and Computers

Thirteenth Annual, International Conference
 "TECHNOLOGY AND PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES"
 March 17 -21, 1998
 Los Angeles Airport Hilton and Los Angeles Airport Marriott Hotels

EASI is proud to highlight this annual conference and to participate in
it. The Conference is Sponsored by California State University
Northridge Center on Disabilities, Harry J. Murphy, Ed.D., Founder and
Director. "For five days the Conference becomes a virtual city of
people with disabilities and those who serve them. The energy is
fantastic. The Center makes an enormous contribution toward changing
the lives of thousands and thousands of people." - Ray Bradbury,
Author. The conference is very international in scope, with more than
200 representatives from about 25 different countries in attendance
each year. The exhibit hall by itself is more than worth the
registration with hundreds of vendors with hardware and software that
talk, enlarge, scan text, browse the web word process and more and more.

          Phone:    (818) 677-2578  V/TDD/Message
          FAX:      (818) 677-4929
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          Website:  http://www.csun.edu/cod/

 EASI has helped organize several presentations as part of the
conference on the topic of making science and math more accessible to K-
12 students with special needs.  EASI also plans to provide an internet
broadcast in audio of several of these presentations on the internet
starting on March 28 http://www.rit.edu/~easi

If you come to the conference, you are invited to EASI's reception on
Thursday evening.  Look for more details on the web at
http://www.rit.edu/~easi

EASI March On-line Workshops

March 1 1998 is the beginning of two on-line workshops.  EASI has taught
its workshops to over 1,500 people in over 2 dozen countries.
Participants come from schools, universities, business and nonprofit
organizations.

EASI-WEB discusses universal design of web pages to help web creators
remove barriers to access for users with disabilities.  Registration
information at http://www.rit.edu/~easi/workshops.html

ADAPT-IT is an on-line workshop on adapted computer and information
technologies to guide schools, universities and others make their
systems more accessible for students with disabilities.  It has the
ability to open information and education for this population as never
before.  Registration information at
http://www.rit.edu/~easi/workshops.html