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 Vito Proscia graduated Columbia University in 1958 with a Masters in Electrical Engineering. Vito was the first Blind student to be accepted into the Engineering program at Columbia and graduated with honors.
He started his professional career as an electronics engineer in the aerospace industry. In 1968 was appointed Director of the Sensory Aids Evaluation and Development Center at M.I.T. In the early 1970s became Vice President of Marketing at Telesensory Corp., a founder of The Optacon Fund (Sensory Access Foundation), and a Trustee of the National Braille Press. This experience is the basis upon which IRTI has been established.
Vito Proscia, now 76 years young and enjoys semi-retirement. He is an active consultant to the Board of Directors, attends industry trade shows and continues to be the voice and author of the Technical Innovations Bulletin, T.I.B
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Founded in 1979 our mission was to locate low cost consumer electronic devices and through accessible documentation or modification enabled these tools for use by the blind and low vision. Vito felt there was a great need for this service, which would reduce the cost of assistive technology for people with disabilities.
In 1984 I.R.T.I. entered the World of Talking Book Devices.
I.R.T.I. was the first company to modify a SONYŽ Walkman to play Library of congress format (NLS) talking books for the blind. For the first time talking books for the blind were a portable means of reading and writing. Blind students were now able to read talking books anywhere and take notes with the Walkman by recording to tape.
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I.R.T.I. is the largest developer and manufacture of modified tape players for the NLS Talking book format. We are a publisher of accessible tutorials for consumer electronics making low cost tools easier to use for people with print disabilities. We are a computer systems integrator specializing in technology for the blind, low vision and learning disabled, a Friend of the DAISY Consortium and a software developer specializing in DAISY Digital Talking books.
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