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    Amazing breakthrough from Australia - Closed Captioning introduced into Deaf schools!

    It is available in schools. Parents and students have to ask for it. It is called CART in a school/work setting. A CART provider can attend school with the student and write everything on a stenography machine. The stenographer writes everything that happens in class. What the teacher says...
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    Speech to text portable device?

    There are some people who are able to use Dragon Dictate with great results. HOWEVER, speech recognition software is not ever going to replace CART providers and relay typists. The problems with speech recognition software come from the ambient sounds around the user and the variances in...
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    Hello/I need advice quickly!!!!

    First of all, be calm and breathe. Second, are you still receiving a housing voucher? If you are, then contact the agency you receive it through and inform them of the troubles that you are having. I believe that if you are still receiving the housing voucher you may have some course of...
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    How many people here are NOT deaf?

    Hello All! I am a hearing person. My grandmother and my Dad have hearing loss but refuse to accept it. My Nana, if you don't face her and talk, she asks you to repeat yourself endlessly. as for our questions: 1. The main differences are the same as between two people of any type...
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    How do deaf people learn to read?

    The way that you learn has to do with how your brain is wired. Some people are visual learners, others learn by hearing, and still others learn best by doing. It sounds to me like your brain is wired to learn by seeing. When you couple the seeing of a word with the concept behind it, your...
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    Any help would be a appreciated

    Hello There! I have a couple of questions for you. When you flunked out of a hearing college, what help were you given by the school to make sure you could understand the classes? Did you have a note taker or extra study sessions? I ask because if you had to stop going because you...
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    Court Reporter considering offering CART

    Hello! I haven't been on the site in a while and wanted to clear up some of the things that Reba didn't address. I am a working CART provider. CART is a service whereby the spoken language is turned into the written word. Most often this service is performed by a stenographic reporter, (the...
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    Question on CC best practices

    In a perfect world, everyone would speak in complete sentences in correct English. However, we know the world doesn't work that way. The best thing to do in a telephone conversation is to get everything that is said. You can leave out half words and umm, ah, or other non-word sounds as they...
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    Learning how to caption.

    Nice job on the captions so far! I have a couple of suggestions for when you have multiple people speaking and some of your other concerns. You should just start out with the name of the person speaking. Don't put in a voice over designation. It is not communicating anything that is...
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    How do you get 5 yr. old to clean up mess?

    Hey Dixie!!! Hello from another single mom!! My daughter sounds exactly like yours only mine is a little older. Mine just turned 7 in January. My daughter was a huge handful when she was 5. There were two books that helped me tremendously when my Little one was going through her own...
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    what CART equipment would I need?

    Well for starters, they are CART writers not typists. If the people that you have are true CART writers, meaning that they are stenographers, they should already have their own computers with their own translation software on it. The only thing you would need at the church would be a projector...
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    Deaf Weddings - How Should They Go?

    First off, CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! If you wanted to, you could hire a CART provider to caption the entire wedding onto a screen. If your church has the space for it. Some modern churches have screens that they use for hymn lyrics and the like, the CART provider could use that to caption the entire...
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