Welcome to UCIS
UConn Communication Access and Interpreting Services (UCIS) cultivates universal inclusion and meaningful access by ensuring a comprehensively accessible educational environment for d/Deaf and hard of hearing students, faculty, staff, and visitors through the provision of exceptional communication access services, leading technologies, community-building enterprises, and educational programming that respond to the dynamic academic, professional, and cultural demands of a public research university.
News & Announcements
- Airline Passengers with Disabilities – Bill of Rights (US DOT)The United States Department of Transportation has published an informative document entitled “Airline Passengers with Disabilities Bill of Rights.” It covers a wide range of disabilities. You can view the document HEREPosted on July 12, 2022
- What about the Emotional Impact when Captions Disappear?The Limping Chicken The world’s most popular deaf blog! Laying eggs since 2012 Charlotte Hyde: What about the emotional impact when subtitles disappear? I think I speak for every deaf person when I say I love captions. The events of the past month have only made me appreciate them more. I think enough has been […]Posted on December 6, 2021
- Unmasking My Deaf Experience During Covid-19In class, I cannot get close enough to read people’s lips behind the face shields because of social distancing rules, Kevin Garrison writes, so my students are increasingly silent. By Kevin Garrison October 8, 2020 I am a 39-year-old white male professor in a department of English and modern languages at a regional institution in […]Posted on October 29, 2021