Court Reporter considering offering CART

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I am a court reporter and am considering offering CART. I have no earthly idea how or where to contact the deaf in my area. I live in LaGrange, Georgia. Any guidance you can offer would be greatly appreciated!

Also, I misspelled my username when registering. My last name is Stanley, but I left the "y" off of the spelling. Is there somewhere I can edit that?
 
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Dorraine Stanle said:
I am a court reporter and am considering offering CART. I have no earthly idea how or where to contact the deaf in my area. I live in LaGrange, Georgia. Any guidance you can offer would be greatly appreciated!
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Dorraine Stanle said:
Also, I misspelled by username when registering. My last name is Stanley, but I left the "y" off of the spelling. Is there somewhere I can edit that?
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yes, PM (private message) Alex or a Mod they can add the Y to your name
 
CC,

Thank you for the warm welcome! And I will immediately PM one of the moderators for editing. Thanks a bunch.
 
Hi Dorraine,

I think that you need to create an username instead of your full real name for your own safety. Contact Alex to change it. Some strangers out there read the public forum - who knows.
 
Yiz,

Sorry for the late reply. I guess I need to change my setting so that I'll receive an e-mail notification when someone responds to my post. So, again, I apologize.

CART is Communication Access Realtime Translation, and provides for the instant translation of the spoken word into English text. HERE's a link that will provide more information.
 
Hi DS, I never saw a CART machine. Where can I find some pictures of the CART on Google? Thank you.
 
webexplorer,

The "machine" is a court reporter's steno machine. It's sort of like a typewriter on which they type shorthand. What they type appears as words on a separate screen. HERE is a link to a company that sells them. I hope that helps a bit.
 
Wow! I see that there is no QWERTY on the keyboard. How long it take you to learn on a steno machine if you don't mind to ask you?

Perhaps, it saves your fingers with less work in a way.
 
webexplorer,

A court reporter may spend two to four years in court reporting school. I'm a court reporter, but I'm what they call a "voice writer," as opposed to a "machine writer." I use speech recognition. I repeat what everyone says, and I repeat it into a "sylencer," a/k/a "stenomask." And some of the folks in the courtroom think I'm hooked up to oxygen with that thing pressed against my face. But it sure saves me from getting carpal tunnel syndrome. So I'm saved from doing a lot of typing but my throat sure gets dry. LOL.

My speech recognition is not yet good enough for me to provide CART or captioning, but it's certainly my goal. But I just don't think that there's much of a demand for it in my area.
 
Do you any center for independent living in your state? I think all state have some kind of centers for deaf and HOH people. The center for independent living in my state has CART and my city would have rent it out . The center for independent living would bring it to my city hall and pick it up when we're done with it. It cost about $ 250 to rent for 2 hours any time over that would cost more in my state. I did not have my city get it for me as I felt it was too much money to spend on only one person. My city it very small and we do not extra money .
 
webexplorer,

No, I have not checked to see if there were and HOH centers in my area, so thank you for that tip. I will certainly look into that. I guess I could check with the chamber of commerce.

And I believe that finances may be the same issue in this area, as I live in a small town.
 
Welcome to this site, DS! Are you trying to discern how many deaf folks live in LaGrange first before making the expenditure of a CART machine? I know it has wide-spread use in this country for a few venues. What is the population of LaGrange? At first blush, I'd say not to make that expenditure and use certified ASL interpreters, certified for Legal interpreting.
 
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I know that there are CART court reporters in Houston. They are hired by deaf lawyers. Deaf parties/litigants must have an ASL interpreter, I believe.
 
sallylou said:
I know that there are CART court reporters in Houston. They are hired by deaf lawyers. Deaf parties/litigants must have an ASL interpreter, I believe.
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Noty sure about the last line, Sal. There are deaf folks who don't know ASL.
 
That's true but if the deaf person does use ASL CART would not be sufficient. The attorneys have to worry about the deaf person saying that he/she did not understand the proceedings. One of those issues attorneys worry about. Clients would not be happy if the dispute was not resolved and final. In the case of children, it's not over until the statute of limitations runs out on collecting support! Most difficult. . .
 
sallylou said:
That's true but if the deaf person does use ASL CART would not be sufficient. The attorneys have to worry about the deaf person saying that he/she did not understand the proceedings. One of those issues attorneys worry about. Clients would not be happy if the dispute was not resolved and final. In the case of children, it's not over until the statute of limitations runs out on collecting support! Most difficult. . .
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I thought, with CART, English is displayed and the assumption is that the client is capable. If not, CART wouldn't be possible nor considered. And if the client doesn't know ASL, I'm at a quandary. Maybe Reba will see this.
 
I think that the issue is what the party/litigant needs. It's important that he/she understands the proceedings and legal advice of the attorney without question. The deaf person could notify the court what he/she needs. The attorneys could sign an agreement about the accommodations and present it to the judge for signature.
 
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