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Hello all!
I just became a registered member and wanted to briefly introduce myself.
I am a (hearing) court reporting student and I eventually want to provide CART services for the dhoh community (once I develop enough speed on my steno machine!). I registered because I want to becoming educated about the dhoh community as that will be a very important component of my CART career. Another reason is that I am bored :whistle:with practicing audio material that is related to court/senate hearings/etc (these are given in class) and that has no value to anyone. I would much rather practice on material that can be useful to someone. I'm hoping I can use my current steno skills to benefit others (and also to get me to practice more!).
 
Welcome aboard!

Just a heads up: most deaf/hoh customers who use CART are not culturally Deaf or even use sign language. I still think it's great that you want to learn about the community though, because it will definitely help you to understand where some of your customers are coming from.

I use CART in my classroom, and I can't tell you how invaluable the transcriber is. Before I got CART, I would lipread my students, and aside from the fact that my lipreading is never 100% accurate, I would get exhausted after just an hour of that kind of concentration. With CART, I can finally focus on just teaching my students, rather than trying to understand them. The difference is night and day!

So thank you very much for your commitment to a very important career!
 
TheWriteAlex said:
Welcome aboard!

Just a heads up: most deaf/hoh customers who use CART are not culturally Deaf or even use sign language. I still think it's great that you want to learn about the community though, because it will definitely help you to understand where some of your customers are coming from.
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I'm not sure that's entirely correct - more that most CART users who use CART outside of educational settings many not be FLUENT in ASL.

I will likely use CART for SOME of my university classes - due to the topic, and the fact that I am able to use the CART transcript as notes (CART provides better more consistent notes than most note-takers).

While I prefer ASL/English interpreters for most events (conferences, courses, dr appointments etc), there are some settings where CART for me is actaully preferable (highly technical vocabulary, settings where extensive note takings is required etc.)

I've found that I'm not at all alone in this - as many Hoh ASLers and Deaf ASLers who are very comfortable with English (many of whom grew up in a Bi-Bi setting at home & school) will choose CART for somethings, and ASL interpreters for others.


Like most things - it's not really an "either/or" situation ... it's about having a wide variety of communication resources available so that the Hoh/Deaf/SI person is able to use what works best for them, in each situation.


ruform
One thing you might want to try for your CART skills is (provided you have the steno machine at home ?) is transcribing some TV, or "talk radio" programs that you like - not only is it much more interesting topic wise, it will also give you a much better taste of "real communication".
 
Anij said:
I'm not sure that's entirely correct - more that most CART users who use CART outside of educational settings many not be FLUENT in ASL.

I will likely use CART for SOME of my university classes - due to the topic, and the fact that I am able to use the CART transcript as notes (CART provides better more consistent notes than most note-takers).

While I prefer ASL/English interpreters for most events (conferences, courses, dr appointments etc), there are some settings where CART for me is actaully preferable (highly technical vocabulary, settings where extensive note takings is required etc.)

I've found that I'm not at all alone in this - as many Hoh ASLers and Deaf ASLers who are very comfortable with English (many of whom grew up in a Bi-Bi setting at home & school) will choose CART for somethings, and ASL interpreters for others.


Like most things - it's not really an "either/or" situation ... it's about having a wide variety of communication resources available so that the Hoh/Deaf/SI person is able to use what works best for them, in each situation.


ruform
One thing you might want to try for your CART skills is (provided you have the steno machine at home ?) is transcribing some TV, or "talk radio" programs that you like - not only is it much more interesting topic wise, it will also give you a much better taste of "real communication".
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Hence the reason I said most. And yes, it IS correct. Don't believe me? Go ask a CART provider. Any CART provider will tell you the same thing.
 
:welcome: to AllDeaf forum. As long as there is no interpreters for hearing college whether in the city or town. I had gone to two hearing colleges that have ASL interpreters and notetakers. The last college was in a small town here on the Island and I was not able to get ASL interpreters as it is over at the mainland in the city. That is why I relied on CART but it is not always helpful but at least I learned what they said in the classroom. This year I am not in college anymore.

Have fun reading and posting all the threads here. See you around here. :wave:
 
TheWriteAlex said:
Hence the reason I said most. And yes, it IS correct. Don't believe me? Go ask a CART provider. Any CART provider will tell you the same thing.
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OK :roll: I'm going to guess that it also might be a regional difference aswell as most of the people I know who use CART regularly are ASLers taking specific university courses (mainly advanced sciences and maths).
The exception is those who are late deafened (more specifically adults who've become Hoh/Deaf after 30years of having normal or near normal hearing)
 
Some ASL users use CART too for different reasons. Sometimes the class have too much medical terms, and they have to know those English words since their ASL interpreter don't know the signs for it and have to fingerspell it all the time.

I think you will enjoy reading Stenoknight's blogs: http://blog.stenoknight.com/
 
TheWriteAlex
Thank you for sharing your experience with CART in your classroom and you're welcome (for my commitment to a very important career)!

Anij
Thank you for sharing the reasons/situations for preferring ASL/English interpreters to CART.
I have my steno machine, laptop & CAT (Computer Aided Transcription) software at home & could try to practice to TV or talk radio but at this point, most of it is too fast for me! I agree that these would be MUCH more interesting and train my ear for "real communication". For me, it's better to practice to recorded audio/video because I can pause and rewind and also replay (which helps me analyze my mistakes).

Bebonang
Thank you for the welcome!
I'm curious as to why CART was not always helpful to you . . . would you mind explaining?

deafgal001
Thank you for adding to the explanation of why/when CART is used.
I've read Mirabai Knight's other blog (regarding her learning steno) but, it was some time ago. She is amazing! Thank you for sharing the link to her new company - it'll help me learn more about providing CART.

I'm curious if anyone has an audio file that they would like transcribed (without an "immediate" completion time frame) . . . it would be more interesting to me than the "court reporting" material I have & would serve two purposes: 1 - new practice material and 2 - a "text file" that can be used by someone. I would do this for free (or if you feel moved to, for a donation!)

Enjoy the holidays!
 
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