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By Colleen Platt Seventh grade is one happening place! Lots of energy. Lots of movement. Classwork. Group work. To the media center! To the auditorium! The gym! Science lab! Add in 24 enthusiastic students, six of whom use CART, 24 backpacks overflowing with the essentials of middle school life — not to mention two teachers, one mainstream and one teacher of the deaf; and me with my CART on a c…
Categories: CART, Captioning
by Tess Crowder According to the National Association of the Deaf, there are approximately 28 million people in the United States with some degree of hearing loss. There are various degrees of deafness ranging from mild to profound, which can affect not only the volume, but also the ability to process sound. Deafness can be congenital or caused by illness, trauma, environmental factors (such as lo…
Categories: Captioning
By Janice T. Young Picture this scenario: You (a classroom CART provider) are partway through Introductory Astronomy with your hearing-impaired student, who sits at your side avidly reading your computer output. All is going well. You have carefully prepared your course vocabulary and done a practice take or two that morning to warm up before class, and it's paying off. The instructor's words are …
Susan Hahaj, RPR, CRC, from Texas believes that success in providing CART is accomplished through a mix of professionalism and an inner desire to make a difference to the consumers you are serving. To Hahaj, professionalism means that you have "done your homework" before you arrive in that classroom or at a conference and hook up your equipment for the consumer. You've obtained textbooks and infor…
By Mary DeMattina After working for 13 years as a freelance court reporter in Lexington, Ky., I realized that I wanted to do something more fulfilling. I left the profession and worked for three years in a very creative field that I loved, teaching music and visual arts. This past November, I had to leave that position due to chronic health problems associated with an allergic reaction to somethin…
Once upon a time, a deaf person who was a lip-reader would not even consider going to a public event because they would miss so much. Since they don't speak American Sign Language, an ASL interpreter did not help this population of deaf people. Now one of the most exciting things happening in our culture today is provision of access in public settings to people who are deaf and hard of hearing via…
By Gary D. Robson Unfortunately, there's often an antagonistic or competitive relationship between sign interpreters and reporters doing CART or captioning. Generally, this stems from a lack of understanding on both sides. The solution, as in so many other cases, is education. Why Are We There? This is the first question you and the interpreter need to ask yourselves. At a fundamental level, you b…
Categories: Broadcast and CART Captioners, Captioning
By Deanna Baker I was recently asked, "What is the best way to start a career in captioning?" That's a question that would take volumes to answer, but I'll try to do the best I can, though, in this short space. First off, watch captions as often as possible. Educate yourself as to the difference between realtime captions (live) versus offline captioning (prescripted). Watch with the mute on an…
Categories: Captioning, Employment Opportunities
By Deanna Baker There would be other things besides offline captioning you could use your skills for. Offline captioning really doesn't have anything to do with steno writing except possibly as a word processor making a transcript, if needed. And then much more is involved than transcribing, such as grammar skills, editing skills, understanding the audience, etc. Otherwise, it's all computer work.…
By Deanna Baker Does my captioning software have to be able to do scripting? Is that part of a realtime captioner's job? The term "scripting" may be confusing in the captioning profession. Most people think of scripting as someone reading from text, which in the captioning world is not the case. You may run across this version of scripts if you're captioning a graduation ceremony or acceptance sp…