Do You Know What To Do with the deaf

                  and hard of hearing in  church?

"So that you don’t end up with someone who’s hard of hearing (like a late deaf or senior citizen) that says “I’m deaf,” so the coordinator goes “I know what to do” and ends up with interpreters. Because then the person is like, “I don’t know this, I need CART.” And so you’ve spent money and time and energy on something that’s worthless."

 (Source:  http://skepchick.org/2013/07/disability-disenfranchisement-and-disbelief-an-interview-with-sb-morgaine/)

How do you define deaf?  

Most people who are deaf on an audiogram do not know sign language.  However, capital D 'Deaf' people have a wide range of hearing loss from mild to profound, use  American Sign Language as a cultural, social, linguistic heritage framework.    

"CART is a type of “accommodation” 

service for people with disabilities.  In 

function, CART is similar to sign 

language interpreting for people who are 

deaf, because it transforms spoken 

language into a visual format that is 

appropriate for people with hearing loss.

  But CART can be used by the 95% of 

hard of hearing and deaf people who do 

not use American Sign Language (ASL) 

to communicate." 

(Source: http://www.visiblevoices.com/faq.html)

"The overwhelming majority of people categorized as deaf by the NHS and SIPP are perfectly fluent speakers of

English (or another spoken language) and did not experience any difficulty hearing until well

into adulthood (e.g., Blanchfield, Dunbar, Feldman, & Gardner, 1999; Mitchell, 2005). As a

consequence, most people who are audiologically deaf do not use sign language."

Source: 

 Draft manuscript accepted for publication in

Sign Language Studies, Volume 6, Number 3, 2006

How Many People Use ASL in the United States?

Why Estimates Need Updating􀀁

Ross E. Mitchell, Travas A. Young, Bellamie Bachleda,

and Michael A. Karchmer

Gallaudet Research Institute

Gallaudet University

Why Real Time Captioning?

• "Sometimes referred to as oral deaf, they are not signing or "Big D" Deaf. They speak English, not American Sign Language because they’ve lost hearing late in life or, if the loss occurred in childhood, they’ve had speech training and wear hearing aids or a cochlear implant
• Oral deafness is "the invisible disability."  (Source:  http://www.theopencaptioners.com/faqs.php)

"It is this group of late-deafened individuals who can benefit from realtime reporting services in courtrooms, school settings, seminars, meetings and counseling sessions. Realtime reporting has opened doors of communication and removed them from isolation, providing them with the opportunity to be included once again in the hearing world."

 (Source:  https://ncra.org/Membership/content.cfm?ItemNumber=9093&navItemNumber=11457)

"You get the jokes, the satire, the innuendo. You have full access. You are an equal participant. That’s CART Captioning. That’s Communication Access Realtime Translation.”  (Source:  http://www.realtimeworldwide.com/services/cart-communication-access-realtime-translation/)