Press Release

The WNY Independent Living, Inc. in conjunction with University at Buffalo's Center on Knowledge Translation for Technology Transfer (KT4TT), is looking for individuals who are either severely hard of hearing OR totally deaf and fall between the ages of 19 - 75. Qualified participants will be paid $75 for this three hour group, which will take place at WNY Independent Living, 3108 Main Street, near Hertel Avenue. A Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) service provider will be onsite as well as qualified interpreters for anyone who uses sign language. To learn more or to participate in this group, please contact: Michelle Lockett, Marketing Analyst, (716) 204-8606 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              (716) 204-8606      end_of_the_skype_highlighting extension 203 or mlockett@buffalo.edu. Deadline is November 2, 2009.

KT4TT is a partnership of the University at Buffalo's Center for Assistive Technology, and WNYIL agencies. This Buffalo-based five-year program is sponsored by a grant from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) of the U.S. Department of Education.

The WNY Independent Living, Inc. (IL) is Western New York's largest cross-disability, consumer-directed, non-residential organization for persons with disabilities. At the IL, individuals of all ages and all types of disabilities learn to exercise their freedom of choice to take control of their own lives in order to live more productively in, and contribute to, the community.

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