Joel Snyder

Experience

Dr. Joel Snyder is known internationally as one of the world’s first “audio describers,” a pioneer in the field of Audio Description. Since 1981, Dr. Snyder has introduced audio description techniques in over 40 states in the U.S. and 64 countries; he has made thousands of live events, media projects and museums accessible. Dr. Snyder was named a Fulbright Scholar to train audio describers in Greece and Ukraine over a four-week period and recently trained describers in Bulgaria and Uzbekistan. The American Council of the Blind published Dr. Snyder’s book, The Visual Made Verbal – A Comprehensive Training Manual and Guide to the History and Applications of Audio Description, available as an audio book and in Braille from the Library of Congress and in English, Polish, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and Chinese print editions.