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We Are Everywhere and Approximately 300 Million People Strong, Globally……..
Have you ever turned to your favorite t.v. series and wished it were captioned? How many times have we sat through a movie wishing it were captioned on opening night? Did you miss your train...
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Communication Access Real-Time Translation (CART)
In the late 1990′s, I heard about CART, sometimes called real-time captioning, through people on my SWC list. I understood the concept but I didn’t fully get it. I knew it was an accommodation but I...
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Say WHAT?: the inadequacy of transcribed captions by Michele Linder
A few months ago, Cathy Zimmerman, a fabulous lady from my SayWhatClub home list, Connect, shared with our group her recent honor at being nominated, by Sister Ann M. Horvat, SCN, for her local...
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Hearing and Listening and Family….oh wow!
I’ve experienced and I’ve come to realize several things about myself and my hearing loss over the past year. First off, my hearing loss has deteriorated over the past year in my good ear. My “bad...
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The Phone and Hearing Loss
The phone is all about being social and getting information. It’s one of the first places hearing loss is recognized. Repeats are more common than in person; why? Because it’s a disembodied voice with...
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The SayWhatClub Convention
It’s like meeting long lost friends, even on the first meeting. Last night we opened with the Welcome party. A few scenes… Tote bags given to attendees. Kristen Willey setting up food. Donna Penman...
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SWC Convention Workshops
Thanks to Listen Technologies, the workshop area was looped for our convenience. For those who didn’t have t-coils in their hearing aids, assistive listening devices were provided. Gayl Hardeman...
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THE SOCIAL WEB by Jeffrey Swartz
Spiders I can live without but spider webs I can look at all day long. Spiders are such wonderful artists, the way they spin such impressive designs. About ten years ago I started spinning my web –...
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Hearing Aids Are Only the Beginning
Hearing aids improve the lives of those with hearing loss but it’s only the beginning. Hearing aids aren’t called hearing miracles for a reason. There’s a variety of other coping strategies which go...
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Black Friday, Cyber Monday and now, Giving Tuesday by Pearl Feder
As we head into November, many people begin to prepare for the holiday season. Every year I attempt to take my mind off the burdens and stress of the holiday season through “giving.” Thank...
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A Natural Disaster by Pearl Feder
High Tide Before Hurricane Sandy It was October 29th, 8:30 a.m. Monday morning and high tide had flooded the streets of the Rockaways before Sandy made her entrance. The City had announced a...
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Captions Are Essential for Hard of Hearing Movie-Goers
By Shanna Groves / LipreadingMom.com And the nominees for best captioned movie for the Deaf and hard of hearing are… Okay, the Oscars don’t actually honor captioning. But in this day and age of many...
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WE ALL HAVE DREAMS by Pearl Feder
Last night, I attended the Nalaga’at Deaf-Blind Theatre Ensemble, Directed by Adina Tal, at the NYU Skirball Center. Nalaga’at has a permanent home located in Jaffa, Tel Aviv in Israel. While...
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Why Not? by Michele Linder
The question on the Collaborative for Communication Access via Captioning (CCAC) blog is, “Do You Ask? For Captioning or CART of course?”, and “If not, why not?” For me, the answer to “Why not?” is...
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Angels of the “Very Other”
“Elizabeth Kamundia is a lawyer working on disability rights in Kenya. Through an Open Society scholarship, she studied disability law at the National University of Ireland Galway and graduated in...
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Missing from the Menu by Michele Linder
The Kenguru Electric Car allows drivers to remain in their wheelchairs. I just checked out Mashable’s “10 Ingenious Inventions for People With Disabilities”, and I was quite impressed by many of the...
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It’s All Chinese to Me, by Michele Linder
I boarded my flight from Atlanta to Munich at around 4:00 in the afternoon. Thirty-five hours since leaving the house for the airport the previous morning. I was tired. So tired, I informed the...
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Why Not Caption?
by Michele Linder Here in the United States, we enjoy a high rate of captioning on television (though we still have our frustrations when we come across an exempt program or one where the rules have...
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Captioning Options
By Chelle George Last week I had the opportunity to experience TypeWell, “A system for capturing spoken content and generating an immediate meaning-for-meaning transcript.” Kate Ervin, executive...
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Just Another Day of Advocating for Quality Captions
By Michele Linder This morning my niece shared a very inspiring video on Facebook… it drew me in. I opened the link and began watching only to find that the video wasn’t captioned. Boo! Hiss! I then...
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