TSA Launches New Toll Free Number for Air Travelers with Disabilities
The Transportation
Security Administration (TSA) has launched a new helpline number for air travelers with disabilities and medical conditions.
Call TSA Cares toll free at 1-855-787-2227 before traveling for answers to questions about screening policies, procedures
and what to expect at the security checkpoint. TSA recommends that passengers call about 72 hours before traveling so
that when needed, TSA Cares can coordinate checkpoint support with a TSA Customer Service Manager at the airport.
Updates from Eileen Curran: Braille Challenge, will be taking place on Saturday, March 3rd. If you have
a student who is planning on attending, please get the applicaton in ASAP. The deadline is the first week of February, and
it is a strict deadline. We need to have enough time to order the materials from CA, so please get the applications in.
Upcoming
Audio Described Shows:
Wild Swans- Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge
MA (Harvard Sq.) Audio described performance: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at 7:30 PM and Saturday, March 3, 2012 at 2:00
PM with audio describer Alice Austin. The audio described performances will be preceded by a touch tour. Attendees for the
audio described performances are encouraged to arrive one hour prior to curtain.
Tickets can be purchased for ASL interpreted and for Audio Described performances by
calling the American Repertory Theatre box office at 617.547.8300 or by emailing the box office at boxoffice@amrep.org and requesting designated seats for the nights of the ASL interpreted or audio described performances.
Large format programs, hearing loops, and assistive listening devices
are available for use at every performance.
Wild
Swans is a new adaptation of Jung Chang's international bestselling family biography. The story of three generations
of women in twentieth-century China, Wild Swans chronicles one family's survival through a century of revolutions, violence,
and utopian dreams. Adapted by Alexandra Wood and directed by Sacha Wares, Wild Swans is a co-production with the Young
Vic in London, and runs at the Loeb Drama Center February 11 through March 12, 2012.
The Loeb Drama Center, located at 64 Brattle Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge, is accessible
to persons with special needs and to those requiring wheelchair seating or first-floor restrooms. Deaf and hard-of-hearing
patrons can also reach the theater by calling the toll-free N.E. Telephone Relay Center at 1-800-439-2370. For further information call 617-547-8300
or visit http://www.americanrepertorytheater.org.
The Addams Family at the Wang Center will have Audio Description at the performance on Wednesday, February
15 at 7:30 pm and
Les
Misérables at the Boston Opera House will have Audio Description at the performance on Saturday, March
31 at 2 pm.
How to order tickets: By Email:
Email to ADABoston@BroadwayInBoston.com . By Phone: By calling
(617) 880-2419. Please leave a detailed message including a day/evening phone number and specific information regarding what
kind of special seating need you have.
Mail
Order: Broadway in Boston, Attn: Access Seating, Boston Opera House, 539 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111
All orders must include: name of production, day and evening telephone number, performance
date/time and please specify special need request. Please provide check or money order made payable in full to Broadway in
Boston.
Camp Inter-Actions in Georges Mills, NH has opened their Summer
Registration. Go to Recreation page for more information.
Scholarship information available upon request.
For a registration form and additional information please contact: Debbie Gross campinfo@inter-actions.org 603-228-2803
www.inter-actions.org
