Can't someone just take notes for you
                  at the Catholic Mass?

CART allows a person to ‘decide’ what is important in a full homily and the message God gives them through it, compared to getting it second hand via the note taker jotting down summaries. Notes are not the full message.

If notes are inadequate it resorts to ‘I’ll tell you later’, ‘don’t worry about it’, ‘it wasn’t important’, ‘ he was so fast’,  ‘this is all I could remember.’  Someone typing on a laptop has the same issues because the speaker is speaking faster than their ability to type.

CART functions like a translator, translating the spoken to written verbatim. CART provides active and equal participation rather then doing it differently, which is much more than a person only being a spectator getting notes.

"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)

Examples of Effective communication:   http://www.dartmouth.edu/~accessibility/effcomm/index.html

"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/)

"Accessible meeting space allows

 everyone to participate." 

(Source: http://www.ada.gov/business/accessiblemtg.htm




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