Captioning the Catholic Mass

Fully Connected to the Mass
An article in Catholic Herald:

See http://catholicherald.com/stories/Fully-connected-to-the-Mass,26818

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"When an event needs to be made inclusive, projecting the CART display for the benefit of the entire room can be the best way to provide universal access for Deaf, late deafened, and hard of hearing people, as well as people who might have some degree of hearing loss but who don’t self-identify as hard of hearing or deaf. CART is also useful for English language learners and people with dyslexia, auditory processing disorder, or ADHD. When the CART display is available to every audience member, no one has to feel singled out or as if they’re demanding special privileges. Everyone benefits."

(Source: http://composition.al/blog/2014/05/31/your-next-conference-should-have-real-time-captioning/)

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CART/captioning in church: see article at -

http://www.stenotype.edu/news/stenographer-goes-church/#sthash.T6dA2OpF.dpuf

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Universal communication Access for the deaf and hard of hearing is needed.

Why?

Because the deaf and hard of hearing are diverse:

"We provide ASL interpretation, hearing induction loops, and FM transmitter headsets. Following are words from two of the event’s speakers, excerpted from a real-time live captioning transcript. Known as Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART), the service works like live subtitles." - See more at: http://chchearing.org/blog/what-does-severe-hearing-loss-feel-like/#sthash.ZSya8A7H.dpuf

Captioning the Word:

http://captioningtheword.com

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)

"What does it mean for communication to be “effective”? Simply put, “effective communication” means that whatever is written or spoken must be as clear and understandable to people with disabilities as it is for people who do not have disabilities."

(Source: http://www.ada.gov/pcatoolkit/chap3toolkit.htm)