Toolkit Idea Topic 12-Captioning

Hi everyone. This is the 12th of 27 Idea Topics
listed on three sheets of paper called:
"A Toolkit of Ideas for People With A Hearing Loss"
Sheet 1 Introduction Ideas 4 topics
Sheet 2 Toolkit Ideas 18 topics
Sheet 3 Closing Ideas 5 topics
Prior topics acan be seen at google website:


12 CAPTIONING;Displays text or spoken words to
allow viewer to follow the dialogue. Captioning
usually may be on or off at the will of the
person watching.

1 TV Captioning:Text display of spoken dialogue
and sounds that are visible on the screen. All
new TV sets larger than 13" come with a built-in
caption chip that can be activated to show captions
for hard of hearing & deaf people when desired.
Older sets can be connected to separate decoders
to present the same captioned messages.

2 Telephone Captioning(CapTel):Special telephone
that allows you to see what someone is saying as
well as hear the message. See topic 8 for more
information.

3 Captioned Movies:More and more theaters are
providing captioning of selected movies. Check
or call your local theaters for schedules.

4 CART(Computer Assisted Real-time Translation):
Captioned speech on a full or partial screen
that allows hard of hearing & other people to
read the words a speaker says almost as soon as
spoken. Used at most meetings held by such
groups as HLAA(Hearing Loss Assoc of America)
and ALDA(Assoc of Late Deafened Adults).

Let's chat about our use of these and other captioning
experiences you have had so we can learn how to use them.

Paul in NJ