Captioning the Catholic Mass

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Real -Time Connection to the Message

"The homily is a Personal word. "Before anything else...the Sunday homily is the word of a person of faith, the word of a person who has experienced the Lord and who wishes to share that experience." (page53). Paul VI said that our modern world thirsts for authenticity and a homily that is personal will communicate verbally and non-verbally the preacher’s authentic love of God and pastoral love for the assembly.”(Source: http://www.preacherexchange.com/br_writtentextbecomes.htm)

"The importance for people with any disability to interact in a standard setting rather than do it differently is critical," (Source: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/real-time-captions-helping-deaf-kids-realise-potential/story-e6freuzi-1226453656874 -ROSEMARIE LENTINI, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH)

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)

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

"Accessible meeting space allows

everyone to participate."

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

"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/)

See CART demo at

https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=A0LEVrjZuD1XmJQAx7QPxQt.;_ylu=X3oDMTBsa3ZzMnBvBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkAw--?p=you+tube+CART+demo+hearing+imparied+deaf&tnr=21&vid=F923C3006974A3B54870F923C3006974A3B54870&l=455&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOVP.V383d6174ddc8c31d18a57e164bf28169%26pid%3D15.1&sigi=12bla2av0&rurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dqn4B0gyDosA&sigr=11b5bumfh&tt=b&tit=Communication+Access+Realtime+Translation%3A+CART+Services+...&sigt=11si1vc07&back=https%3A%2F%2Fsearch.yahoo.com%2Fyhs%2Fsearch%3Fp%3Dyou%2Btube%2BCART%2Bdemo%2Bhearing%2Bimparied%2Bdeaf%26type%3DYHS_RV_80861031%26param1%3Dij7zzSxCeE_ZFQBITDAHLoFpjG7hkwp_bBEH1rF14ZV6tGRs6wQGPvckGsVV45PY9-0uW7BoWJ0cra-boastR7xVvQ32ocgvtHSx9nKlY3U67Q%252C%252C%26hsimp%3Dyhs-newtab%26hspart%3DLkry%26fr%3Dyhs-Lkry-newtab%26ei%3DUTF-8&sigb=18o6q59dd&hspart=Lkry&hsimp=yhs-newtab

Monday, February 1, 2016

The other deaf people

"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

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/)

See CART demo at

Catholic Canon Lawyer's Misunderstanding about the DIVERSE population of the deaf/Deaf and Hard of Hearing

*“I would have warned against seeing captioning as the solution to the communication problem for the simple reason that captioning is one-directional; people might read captioning, but they don't respond in it. Captioning cannot, therefore, offer "that fully conscious and active participation in liturgical celebrations which is demanded by the very nature of the liturgy” Sacrosanctum Concilium 14). Sign languages do. Source: http://www.canonlaw.info/2008/01/to-best-accomodate-deaf-begin-by.html

In reality, one could ‘technically’ respond to Captions w/ sign language if the person can also read. However, the population who uses Captioning in real time (CART) are the deaf/HOH who are verbal. You read the captioning (receptive) and respond orally (expressive) of the SAME language for two-directional communication in most situations, generally speaking. Classes, RCIA, Virtus training, and Catholic conferences are very useful having access to it in CART/Captioning.

For the Mass; The issue is more of the lag time translation services can present when translating from spoken English to verbatim English and how one would manage that discrepancy (albeit brief) lag time of ‘real time’. This BTW, is similar to most services being done in translation. There is always a lag time when translating, be it from English to ASL, English to Spanish, spoken words, to verbatim (CART). Do you respond with a delay verbally when others are a few words ahead of you ‘like an echo slightly off beat’? Or do you mentally engaged the response ‘orally’ without vocalizing to adapt to the situation? This would be if the entire Mass in in CART. Many hearing people often mentally engaged ‘voicing the singing or responses in their head’ without vocalization during a Mass and spiritually participating in that mental processing/engagement.

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/)

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

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

"Accessible meeting space allows

everyone to participate."

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

We Use CART (captioning) not American Sign Language

"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/)

"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)

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

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

"Accessible meeting space allows

everyone to participate."

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