WHAT’S SO FUNNY ABOUT HEARING LOSS? (AND CAPTIONING)

THERE ARE SO MANY JOKES ABOUT HEARING LOSS, RIGHT?

We love to laugh also, yet hearing loss is a serious experience. We can all talk about that – all the time! Yet this post invites your genuine FUNNY experiences please. Add them in a comment now. Or email to CCACaptioning@gmail.com.

We really need some good jokes or images that will help all of us keep on going. (Hopefully not offend anyone either. Let’s have a laugh at ourselves please from time to time!)

One experience is to be offered a wheelchair when we say we are deafened. What?! Is this funny or not? Have to keep laughing!

Another experience is to have someone immediately tell you something like, “Oh, my (very old) mother has a hearing loss too, haha, haha.”

Or, “Oh right, selective hearing, eh? haha.”

Those are not jokes! Anyone have a genuinely FUNNY experience? We can guess it’s the miscommunication ones like when a friend says something like “hey, let’s go get some ice cream” and we hear “hey, i feel like screaming”.

ANYONE HAVE A GOOD FUNNY JOKE ABOUT HEARING LOSS?

TELL US SOON!

P.S. WE googled “funny things about hearing loss” and came up with these non-fun facts:

a. http://www.turnittotheleft.org/educational/funFacts.pdf

b. http://www.hearingaids.com/about-hearing-loss/how-we-hear/10-cool-facts-about-hearing/

c. http://hearinghealthmatters.org/hearinprivatepractice/2014/fun-facts-hearing/

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Do Folks with Aids & Implants use Captions? YES!

There was a wonderful response to this question recently in a Facebook group. We will not copy the exact messages, it’s called a “closed group” yet all but 1 person of about 90 (!) replying said yes. Some examples below.

I have the TV on loud and use subtitles to follow ………….

I do, always. I’m so used to them now that it seems strange not to turn them on!

Yes I do

One ear CI and the other a hearing aid. I have the closed caption all the time. Its made me a speed reading!

Yes caption always

Yes, captions are always on…

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AND ON AND ON…Yes was the reply in this active group online.

WHAT DOES THIS SHOW US?

Please volunteer soon!

YOU ARE ALL NEEDED IN THE CCAC OR YOUR LOCAL GROUPS TO ADVOCATE FOR THE CCAC MISSION = inclusion of quality captioning universally.

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CCAC Matters – Captioning Activism + Community

In the past few days the CCAC is asked about

*Remote Captioning and,

* If we would do a Webinar for another organization and,

* If we will offer a workshop in the Spring and,

* If we could review the final draft of an important survey re captioning and,

* If  if we can help someone find captioning providers and…

More too! All that and the wonderful discussions inside the CCAC Members’ Forum online also.

Oh yes, busy every day to #captiontheworld  We are all volunteers, please join the CCAC soon!  Ask your friends and others to JOIN the CCAC – family? colleagues? social networks?

How can we help you with that? As an all-volunteer organization, there’s considerable burn out if new members and new energies do not come along….sooner the better.

 

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Feeling the Burn? Cruising Along? Ask for Captioning!

Are you feeling the burn, or going hilarious over his rival? Are you trumping all discussions or cruising along undecided so far?

Do ANY of these candidates have LIVE EVENTS with live captioning for us? If not, why not and where’s YOUR VOICE please?

 

http://ccacaptioning.org/captions-capture-the-votes/ – a non partisan campaign – talk to your own candidates now! All media needs quality CC (no craptions please) and Live Campaign Events need live captioning too. Let’s make it happen. You ready to help? Let’s talk.

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When will Facebook show CC for all videos?

Some videos, with Open Captions (OC) give us access to videos on Facebook. Others, don’t seem to have any captioning at all. Boo!

How many of you have tried to contact FB about this?

What more can we all do to find full equal communication access on social media that most of us use every day (too much – smile)?

Please volunteer soon!

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LIVE EVENT CAPTIONING

IT WAS A NICE SURPRISE when eating supper with new friends yesterday to see them understand right away what CAPTIONING is!

LIVE EVENT CAPTIONING – have YOU ever used it? Seen it? Asked for it?

 

LIVE EVENT CAPTIONING can be used on your own individual mobile device (phone, tablet, laptop) or, ideally for many of us to help and teach many others at the same time, it can be shown on a large monitor or screen or blank wall.

As long as the professional provider has good AUDIO (sound connection one of several ways, e.g. Skype, Telephone, other), the provider does not have to be in the same room as the meeting, event, conference, consultation, dinner, whatever. They can do it “remotely” also, using Internet connections and “streaming” the LIVE SPEECH TO TEXT to the screen.

Yes, conferences ideally have the provider on-site – in the same place.

A large monitor is used these days in so many places – like a large TV screen on the wall (but not showing TV, showing the conversation at the meeting or event). Or if someone requires privacy and the service for inclusion is only for one person alone, it’s shown on the person’s mobile device.

What else would you like to know?

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