On Sept. 11, NCRA’s government relations team attended the Maryland Governor’s Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Advisory Council Meeting held in Baltimore,…
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I graduated from high school at age 18. I entered reporting school at age 18. I commenced my own reporting career at age 18. I…
You can earn 0.25 PDC by passing the exam for this article, which has been approved for publication by NCRA’s Council of the Academy of…
JARGON ALERT CART: Communication Access Realtime Translation CAT: computer-aided transcription IPRS: Intersteno Parliamentary and other professional Reporters’ Section STTR: speech-to-text reporter Never did I imagine…
Following the fires in Denver in June, Monument, Colo., resident Walter Von- Feldt called for increased use of sign language and closed captioning for people…
The San Diego, Calif., ABC affiliate, 10News, reported that a Poway High School senior who is hearing impaired is suing the Poway Unified School District…
On July 11, Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee signed into law legislation that requires a CART provider or interpreter for all court cases where a…
The registered nurse was speaking to me about my mother’s recent ICU discharge when overhead speakers broadcast a doctor’s page. He cupped one hand over…
Last November, Heidi C. Thomas, RDR, CRR, a member of NCRA’s Board of Directors, boarded a plane armed with her equipment case and steno machine.…
The University of Southern California offered captioning for this year’s graduation ceremony, according to a May 10 news post on the university’s website. The captioning…
Regal theaters was equipping 6,000 of its theaters with closed-captioning glasses during the month of May, according to a May 10 article in the Los…
In March, the Collaborative for Communication Access via Captioning surveyed caption users to find out what they valued about the experience of captioning. The survey…