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If a school is showing a video with testable content, it's supposed to either have captions showing, or include a complete transcript. If the school doesn't provide captions or transcripts, then they are not supposed to test students on the video material.
That's the rule. I don't know if every school follows it.
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Yeah, my school follows it, I just had to let remind them a couple times. The caption-activating part was sort of my fault, because I didn’t know we’d be tested on the screenings so I didn’t even bother to remind them to turn on the CCs (the videos are SO BORING. I’d rather sleep!)
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I notice weird things though like how CC tells you which song is in the background, etc. Some of the things make me laugh.
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Haha, me too, especially if it’s at the very beginning, there hasn’t been any dialogue, and the first thing you see on screen is “(ominous music).” Anyone seen The Lion King DVD where Elton John is supposedly singing “Circle of Life” but the subtitles say a woman is singing it? lol
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My two hearing roommates keep the CC on all the time. They say they like it so they can turn the sound off when the other is studying. My family also keeps the CC on. No one has said that it is distracting.
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Yeah, I even know of my hearing friend and her all-hearing family and they use the CCs all the time... understandable since their household is pretty noisy!
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Your professor should have said "no" once and let people know the topic was closed. We almost never watch a screen during my classes, but when we have it is not a problem. All my classes are small, however, and most? everyone? in my classes knows I can't hear and need the CC. One advantage to small classes maybe.
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yeah actually the professor handled it fine – she’s actually done a wonderful job in accommodating my hearing loss. I had one small request from her to stand slightly closer to the microphone, and she remembered to do so for every lecture afterwards. She even said once, when people were getting up while she was still talking at the end of class, to wait until she was finished because they were making noise and it’s difficult for some people to hear. so I’m grateful for that teacher, and I’ll blame myself (and the audio-visual department lol) for not activating the captions.
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The teacher should have left the sound off and have class watch it anyway with no cc, then the teacher tell class ready for test now. Then the teacher can explain to the class that's how the deaf person feels. How would you like to watch the movie with no voice and have to take test? I'm sure it will wake them up as to why deaf people need to watch closed captioned...lol
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people have said it, but, that’s SUCH a great idea! I really wish she could have done this, that would have been great!
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I has no problem with my school from K to 12 in deaf and hard-of-hearing;
even hearing mainstreaming classes when its captioning was on.
Kim, I'm sorry to hear about that, I hope these students should following that captioning that make understandable follow through it.
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the weird thing is, I only had that one problem with it during high school (I never used CC’s in elementary school though), but I’m COMPLETELY surprised that this happened in college. I guess the students were all just used to seeing the screenings without CC... I’m starting to think that, maybe, they thought the CC was on by mistake because up until that point there were no captions.