NCRA participated in the Hearing Loss Association of America’s annual convention held June 25-28 in St. Louis, Mo., as one of many exhibitors. Adam Finkel,…
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On June 11, NCRA joined a number of organizations to cosponsor a briefing luncheon hosted by the Friends of the Congressional Hearing Health Caucus. The…
Hawaii mandated accommodations for people with hearing or visual impairments at all theaters in the state, according to a May 7 article in The Garden…
Rochesterhomepage.com reported on March 27 that a student who is deaf studying at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry is suing the…
NCRA has been named to join 23 other parties representing a number of companies, nonprofit organizations, and individual consumers on the Video Programming Subcommittee under…
This week, the Described and Captioned Media Program is celebrating its Read Captions Across America campaign held in conjunction with the National Education Association’s Read…
A recent post on the website HopesandFears.com features an article that examines how new Internet-based turns of phrase are entering the sign language community. The…
In New Zealand, the National Foundation for the Deaf said broadcasters are denying Kiwis who are deaf and hard of hearing the right to equal…
The Asbury Park Press, Asbury Park, N.J., posted an article on its app.com website on Feb. 26 that tells the story of how one Rutgers and…
The Boston Globe reported on Feb. 12 that the National Association of the Deaf has filed class-action suits accusing Harvard University and MIT of violating…
The Collaborative for Communication Access via Captioning announced two new Captioning Advocacy Projects for 2015. For the two projects, CCAC will pay for up to…
An article in the Daily News that ran Nov. 17 reports that the New York State Attorney General’s office and local agencies are working together…
CART and broadcast captioning and the California Court Reporting Association’s role in advancing this segment of the profession will be the topic of a California…
The National Institute of Health offered a tour of its facilities to representatives of the Friends of the Congressional Hearing Health Caucus. During the tour,…
Jennifer Schuck, RDR, CRR, CBC, CCP, Scottsdale, Ariz., co-chair of the association’s CART Ethics Committee, wrote article about working alongside a CART captioner that appeared…
A recent article in the Catholic Herald describes how NCRA member Donna Linton has helped one of her clients more fully experience Sunday Mass by…
On July 21, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities treaty, sending it to the…
On July 11, the FCC voted unanimously to require closed-captioning for online video clips that have already aired on television, according to a post on…
Ever wondered how your favorite late-night comedy show sifts through all of those cable news clips to bring you the most ridiculous? According an article…
The Hill posted an article on a June 5 blog about U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin’s push for U.S. airlines to add closed captioning to movies…