Top Deaf Issue Concerns A Presidential Candidate Needs To Know

Your Top Deaf Issue Concern:

  • Air Travel

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • American Sign Language

    Votes: 2 11.8%

  • Assistive Technology

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Captioning

    Votes: 2 11.8%

  • Employment Opportunities

    Votes: 2 11.8%

  • Education

    Votes: 8 47.1%

  • Emergency Preparedness

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Human Services

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Infant Screening

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Interpreting

    Votes: 1 5.9%

  • Law Enforcement

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Relay

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Telecommunications

    Votes: 2 11.8%
  • Total voters
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Cheri said:
:thumb: dreamchaser, But we only had one choice to choose from the poll, So I choose closed caption, while someone else already chosen education. ;)
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I see that Cher, but you can give your opinion in your reply on the other things. What do you know alot about? Which one of those problems are close to your heart? Tell me what you know about it, and then how you think we might fix it. Will it take money? A lot or maybe a little? I mean give me a clue how to fame these problems to a politician. I bet you are affected by many things on that list.

Tell me something about everything on the list that you can think of. :):) After we look at is from all sides, we will know more about what can be done. ;)
 
jillio said:
Agreed. JMO, but I personally believe a politician is more inclined to listen when the issues surround educational policy and employment issues. These two issues impact hearing taxpayers more than any other, even though they are deaf issues. Therefore, they will listen to issues that will have some bearing on all constituents before giving a lot of credence to special interest topics. Deaf education and deaf employment can be viewed from a more global perspective, and as issues that affect all of society in one way or another.
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Jillio, you are very right, and we will whittle the list down to the first priorities. But, while we are at it, maybe some things can be done about the other issues on the list, without going through a politician perse. :);0 At least we can look at them, and table them for a later day, or maybe find a new way to approach them.. I have a few ideas on dealing with the captioning on movies and such.. Not necessarily about educational captioning, cuz the government should do that,, but the commercial things might be dealt with in a differnt way.

For sure, the first priorities need to be education, jobs and safety related issues,,, and we can hope for the other things to fall in line one day after that. :)
 
jillio said:
That's a good point. I had not considered that. But innaccurrate captioning on a T.V. program would definately interfere with a parent's ability to supervise their child.
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yep, and if they can't do it on TV (as I know it has limit what it can do), at least force the media to have a transcript on the internet.
 
Rainshower77 said:
yep, and if they can't do it on TV (as I know it has limit what it can do), at least force the media to have a transcript on the internet.
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they usually do for interviews and speeches
 
dreamchaser said:
Jillio, you are very right, and we will whittle the list down to the first priorities. But, while we are at it, maybe some things can be done about the other issues on the list, without going through a politician perse. :);0 At least we can look at them, and table them for a later day, or maybe find a new way to approach them.. I have a few ideas on dealing with the captioning on movies and such.. Not necessarily about educational captioning, cuz the government should do that,, but the commercial things might be dealt with in a differnt way.

For sure, the first priorities need to be education, jobs and safety related issues,,, and we can hope for the other things to fall in line one day after that. :)
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Agreed. I think we need to use the prioities that will get their attention, at the outset and then once attention has been gained, the issues with lesser priority can be brought to the table.
 
jillio said:
Agreed. JMO, but I personally believe a politician is more inclined to listen when the issues surround educational policy and employment issues. These two issues impact hearing taxpayers more than any other, even though they are deaf issues. Therefore, they will listen to issues that will have some bearing on all constituents before giving a lot of credence to special interest topics. Deaf education and deaf employment can be viewed from a more global perspective, and as issues that affect all of society in one way or another.
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that's why accurate captioning or accurate transcript will save taxpayer money because if deaf can monitor their hearing child on what they see on TV, they won't be doing something illegal in the future.
 
Rainshower77 said:
that's why accurate captioning or accurate transcript will save taxpayer money because if deaf can monitor their hearing child on what they see on TV, they won't be doing something illegal in the future.
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I want you to start a notebook on captioning. Everything that is said about it that is true, write it down. Think of all the pros and cons and keep track. When it is time, we will need that information in one place. Could you do that?

There are other ways to deal with the captioning of TV shows,, truly,,
 
I am not sure.... As I rely on captioning.. but every now and then I hear someone say "d__n" and it is not in closed captioning.

but I'll have came across from research that tv do affect children's behavior
 
Rainshower77 said:
I am not sure.... As I rely on captioning.. but every now and then I hear someone say "d__n" and it is not in closed captioning.

but I'll have came across from research that tv do affect children's behavior
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I understand what you mean. I have nine kids, and geeeez, it was impossible to keep them from most of the garbage because they learned it from their friends at school anyway,,, but at least you should have the hope of keeping most of it away from them at home.

what I meant by a notebook was: keep track of what people say on AD, or our friends or whoever you hear complain about things. If we tell the politicians we want to change stuff, we have to tell them why it is necessary.. see what I mean? Since this issue is close to your heart, you can help me to keep track of it. :) Help me figure out the main problems.. Like the airports and subways and stuff I don't know about.. If you pm me, you can get my email addy.
 
yes, I know they learn it from school, but their parents are their role model.. When parents show they care (especially about their behaviors and languages), they are helping their child grow up to be a responsible adult. I mean, if a child learned to make fun of people, would you just let it go because it's impossible to keep up? no, you set a rule at home what isn't allow so they know how serious you feel about it. As the saying goes: "it all start at home".

I'll try to keep up with everything involving captioning.
 
Rainshower77 said:
yes, I know they learn it from school, but their parents are their role model.. When parents show they care (especially about their behaviors and languages), they are helping their child grow up to be a responsible adult. I mean, if a child learned to make fun of people, would you just let it go because it's impossible to keep up? no, you set a rule at home what isn't allow so they know how serious you feel about it. As the saying goes: "it all start at home".

I'll try to keep up with everything involving captioning.
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I truly understand what you mean. For years I kept my kids in Christian school, and I monitored everything from their music to tv. You are right,, it all starts at home. I wasn't trying to say that wasn't important. I was just trying to come up with ways to fix it. YOu need to put that thought in your notebook, it is a good one. It will make a good argument to change things. Now we need to add some more arguments to that one. :) Thanks.. :)
 
The reason why I picked captioning is because it's an immediate process and there are already millions of people with hearing disability. Education is long-term process with no immediate result with sketchy, debatable "expert opinions." The issues with immediate result usually sell better in politic. I do want extensive education reform but we have heard of promise from past several presidents and Bu$h came up with lame-duck "No Child Left Behind" Act... Ron Paul wants to abolish Department of Education... so yea
 
Eucation..

We need to tackle on the language and literacy issues in Deaf education because without language, kids wont be able to develop strong literacy skills.
 
Naturally I picked education, but also would have picked ASL because it is important the government recognizes ASL as an official language, which would impact the education system (e.g., push for more bilingual programs) and enrich interpreting programs. Employment is also on the top of my list- the unemployment status of deaf/hoh folks is just...bad. Really bad.
 
hmmm captioning with pics.. cartoon pics with balloons for the words. now that would be interesting ..Jiro123.. The WashDC subway is very deaf friendly when I lived there in the 80s and 90s.. The guy that suggested the blinking lightis on the platform and inside of the cars was suggested with the deaf in mind.. Atlanta subway was okay.. Now I live in Colorado, the rail system here have "caption sign" that let's a person know the current and next stop.. I rode the New York and Boston subways system a few times.. skeered me white as a sheet...
 
Rainshower77 said:
accurate captioning... I have a hearing son.. because if a show look decent (There are several adult cartoons I came across that I would never let my son watch), I would never know they are saying all those disrespectful or inapprociate conversations

And they don't need to shield bad words from deaf people if hearing people can hear it
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If the captions are truly accurate, they will XXXXX the bad words the same way that they "bleep" the bad words from the sound track that hearing people hear. Sometimes they even blur the speakers' mouths so that people can't lipread the bad words.

The captioners and bleep censors aren't doing that to protect deaf and hearing viewers from bad language. They do it to protect themselves from losing their broadcast licenses from the FCC.

I agree that the captioning needs to be accurate. Especially pre-recorded programing has no excuse for the errors they make.
 
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