Captioning the Catholic Mass

ADA and Church Disability Policy

“The leadership of a church needs to adopt a Church Disability Policy that includes adhering to the ADA to end disability discrimination—and make it known."

(Source: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2015/02/09/religious-institutions-exempt-from-ada-but-encouraged-to-comply/)

The Many benefits of the Universal Design that CART provides:

"What’s great about it, why I’m a huge proponent of CART, is because it gives access to people who are hard of hearing and don’t want to admit it, to people who process visually much better than they do auditorially. It allows for people to request a transcription of what was said, and so in a meeting, if you have a cognitive processing delay, you’re a little bit slower to process auditory information in a room, to be able to have the ability to read back at what was said and at often this is non-disability." (Source: http://skepchick.org/2013/07/disability-disenfranchisement-and-disbelief-an-interview-with-sb-morgaine/)

How do you make it Inclusive to all those who are deaf and hard of hearing?

"However, in order to serve ALL deaf, hard of hearing,

the hearing impaired or people with hearing loss

(whichever terms you choose), all of these accessible

solutions need to be provided, and the Deaf and

hearing impaired should always be placed down front

where they can use their eyes to see to hear and the

audio amplifiers to be picked up by their assistive

devices. Captions should be on the wall or a screen for

those who need to read what is being said."

(Source: http://limpingchicken.com/2014/01/16/deaf-discrimination-to-deaf/)

"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)