Care about Education? About people? Read this!

Resources (technologies) for students at all levels are vital – mega benefits! If we deny students now, the future will be grim indeed. So many can learn and contribute. Any questions?  See http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/department-education-issues-guidance-rights-students-disabilities-when-education, read and distribute. Comments invited.

ls/ccac

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Sharing Suzie’s Blog Here Too: Thanks Suzie J/UK

http://deafcomm.wordpress.com/2011/08/21/35-misconceptions-about-deafness-and-deafblindness/

when we read these lists, we sometimes wish they were repeated every day!

special hello and thanks to Suzie Jones Consultancy/UK

 

 

 

Blog Here! & Thanks for Invite for your Blogs!

If you want to copy one of our CCAC Blogs – please ask and we’ll most likely say YES, with thanks.

If you would like to share one of Your Blog posts here, send it to us! We’ll say thanks and most likely publish it. Our main topic is CAPTIONING – and other related blogs invited also.

Hear that? Want to talk? Email us now. CCACAPTIONING@GMAIL.COM

Lauren/CCAC

Power of Captioning (2)

THE POWER OF CAPTIONING (c) – The phrase “The Power of Captioning” is copyright by the CCAC. Make a note and do not use it without mention of the CCAC, the author. Thanks.

by CCAC, August 17, 2011
An OPEN document – please send additions and suggestions to ccacaptioning@gmail.com
To Join the CCAC, see www.ccacaptioning.org and the lnks for membership (free)

For Business Needs (many of which apply at home, in school, etc.)
Increases Productivity – real time text, as well as immediate transcript, is reported to benefit hearing colleagues as well as those with different hearing needs.
Transcripts for Record-Keeping
Multi-tasking (at work and at home) to catch-up with captioned activity, while working on one or more other tasks, technologies, conversations, related.
Online captioning is useful for “Search” (for marketing, more customers,and more) – very important! All text online is searchable, all audio materials (video, etc.) must be searchble too, possible only with full quality captioning incusion
For translations to reach markets globally
Others business reasons?

For Every Day Life:
Communication Access for millions who have a hearing loss, deafness, learning language of the country, have different learning needs (ADHD, autism spectrum, other communication differences).
Literacy – all ages learning to read
Languages – bilingualism and multilingualism in the modern world
Other everyday benefits?
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CCAC Categories of Life include:
Entertainments: Cinema, Radio, Internet, Video, Wifi and new technologies for communication access for all
Education – ditto (all levels, new trainings in person or online, etc.)
Employment – ditto ( maximize use of all abilities, experience, skills)
Transportation – train, ferry, taxi, bus – it can be done.
Telecommunications – large category overlapping and used in many other categories above and below.
Heath care – what is the point of patient involvement if they do not hear clearly? In person, on health videos, and mroe.
Government – good citizzenship means equal access for all to be informed and involved
Courts/Justice
Community (Clubs, Religious, More)
Sports
See CCAC web “why” douments from www.ccacaptioning.org – good articles and much information
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For Audiologists and People with Hearing Aids, Implants, Accessible Technologies (aka assistive devices)::
When people first use hearing aids, Captioning inclusion helps them understand the new sounds.
Also, many of us prefer to “turn off” for an hour or more each day, too give our ears and brains a well-deserved rest, and captioning inclusion (e.g. tv, Internet videos) is a more relaxing way for us to have communication access.
For many of us with aids and implants, we depend on captioning for all conversations with 3 or more people.

Reminder: this is a public document and we invite suggestions, additions, edits from anyone reading it. Email to ccacaptioning@gmail.com

The Power of Captioning! (c)

A new public document from the CCAC (comments and additions welcome):

THE POWER OF CAPTIONING:
by CCAC, August 15, 2011

The phrase “The Power of Captioning” is copyright by the CCAC!

Here are some reasons that captioning is so very useful, needed, and wonderful 🙂 –see some of the other blogs with similar titles too.

For Business Needs (many of which apply at home, in school, etc.)
Increases Productivity
Transcripts for Record-Keeping
Multi-tasking (at work and at home) to catch-up with captioned activity
Online captioning is useful for “Search” (for marketing, more customers,and more) – very important! All text online is searchable, all audio materials (video, etc.) must be searchble too, possible only with full quality captioning incusion
For translations to reach markets globally
Others business reasons?

For Every Day Life:
Communication Access for millions who have a hearing loss, deafness, learning language of the country, have different learning needs (ADHD, autism spectrum, other communication differences).
Literacy – all ages learning to read
Languages – bilingualism and multilingualism in the modern world
Other everyday benefits?
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CCAC Categories of Life include:
Entertainments: Cinema, Radio, Internet, Video, Wifi and new technologies for communication access for all
Education – ditto (all levels, new trainings in person or online, etc.)
Employment – ditto ( maximize use of all abilities, experience, skills)
Transportation – train, ferry, taxi, bus – it can be done.
Telecommunications – large category overlapping and used in many other categories above and below.
Heath care – what is the point of patient involvement if they do not hear clearly? In person, on health videos, and mroe.
Government – good citizzenship means equal access for all to be informed and involved
Courts/Justice
Community (Clubs, Religious, More)
Sports
See CCAC web “why” douments from www.ccacaptioning.org – good articles and much information
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MORE ANYONE?

 

Captioning Captures it All

A (hearing) visitor has this new benefit for captioning to share –in a world where many of us “multitask,” captioning helps catch up with what’s happening.

For example, watching sports on TV while also working on one’s laptop or ipad!

Other recent benefits mentioned in our members’ forum for the power of captioning:

Increasing productivity of all in work meetings: if one person is using real time captioning (CART), others find it very helpful and report being more productive.

Consider these captioning benefits: Multitasking, Productivity, Communication Access, Participation, Contributing….and all the ways captioning helps millions for learning, languages, literacy, search and more.

CCAC invites your ideas to illustrate and explain the Power of Captioning.

Paragraphs, Posters, Powerpoints, Flyers, articles, videos, etc. Send them along!

If we could come up with one powerful sentence, all the better :-).

Examples we’ve used, among others:  Captioning is our ramp for equal communication access.

Captioning is our language.

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United Nations Speaks – Languages and Captioning?

This is interesting – the CC button on upper right is there – the language is English – we hope this important body for the world has inclusion of quality captioning streamed live one day soon:

http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/2011/08/press-conference-h-e-mr-hardeep-singh-puri-india-president-of-the-security-council.html