Video Phone Service Rollout for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Entrepreneurs

The U.S. small Business Administration provides three Cs of starting your own business. We also help businesses recover from disasters. That's counseling, contracting capital, and disaster assistance. Hi, I'm Maria Contrera Sweet, and as the administrator of the sba, I'm working to make the agency smart, bold and accessible.

Hello, I'm FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, and I'm happy to announce that SBA is partnering with the Federal Communications Commission to roll out a new consumer service initiative that personifies accessible. You know, accessible is about leveraging technology and putting systems and strategies in place to ensure underserved communities, including individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, have equal access to SBA's products, programs and services.

SBA will be using technology that will allow SBA's customers who are deaf or hard of hearing to communicate directly with sba. I'm proud to announce that the SBA now has a dedicated person on staff who will use VRs to assist the deaf and hard of hearing who communicate primarily in American Sign Language.

Hi. I'm looking forward to assisting you by providing you with information to access counseling, contracts and capital, as well as resources that can assist you with recovering from a disaster.

We're here to make it easier for deaf and hard of hearing individuals to reach the SBA without using a third party or intermediary relay service.

The SBA is the first, first federal agency to partner with the FCC to offer this kind of dedicated service. We're here to help every step of the way.

So Visit us at SBA.gov or connect with us at 885-440-4960. Entrepreneurship is for everyone and we're here to give you the tools to suc.