What would you do if no Captions are avaliable for you during school?

[VamPyroX]

I had similar problems throughout school. My teachers NEVER would turn on CC nor would they repeat themselves if I didn't understand something, which was a lot. I remember asking about something I missed and all my teacher said was, "You heard me, I just said it". I was so mad about that! I found the IEP to be a total joke, I even went to an elementary school with a deaf HoH program but since I was already mainstreamed before the program had started.... and the fact that I was taught SEE early on when the program used ASL didn't help much either. I did have the use of a FM system for about 4 months until someone decided the device was too expensive to allow me to use it.

School for me was pretty boring, and a lot of the time if there was a movie shown in class for fun or something I'd be in speech therapy... thanks IEP!

At the time I was in high school, televisions didn't have CC included. Also, not every classroom had a decoder.

Most of the time, we had interpreters for our movies. Sometimes, we would be lucky to have a decoder available and use it for some movies.

I've often had to put up with a few interpreters complaining that the volume wasn't loud enough. Yet, it was loud enough for us deafies. :roll:

 

[Lissa]

captions/ subtitles were and are never available for me through high school and college. My 'terp usually signs what is going on, and if she is lucky the teachers will tell her before the lesson. She usually turns up to the lesson then the teachers decide to tell her which isn't fair on me or her

My tutors never ask me to write notes during a video because they know i cannot do it. I usually ask my friend to look at hers.

Have I told you all about the popcorn indicent?

 

[dreama]

When I was growing up the only captioned films I saw were foreign ones. I got to see some at a film theatre with my mom. Only I don't know if foriegn films still use captions. I think they started dubbing them.

Are there still any foreign films with captions?

 

[Reba]

...I've often had to put up with a few interpreters complaining that the volume wasn't loud enough. Yet, it was loud enough for us deafies. :roll:

I don't know about your particular situation but it is true that sometimes interpreters can't hear sounds coming from speakers as well as the audience can. That's because terps are often positioned either behind or under the speaker audio output. I've also had the opposite problem, being positioned too close to huge speakers. The problem then is distortion.

Speakers are designed and positioned only for the audience that is facing them. For anyone else, there is either a "dead zone" of sound or massive distortion.

 

[Reba]

When I was growing up the only captioned films I saw were foreign ones. I got to see some at a film theatre with my mom. Only I don't know if foriegn films still use captions. I think they started dubbing them.

Are there still any foreign films with captions?

Foreign films use subtitles, not captions. Subtitles don't include all the audio cues that captions do.

 

[shel90]

I don't know about your particular situation but it is true that sometimes interpreters can't hear sounds coming from speakers as well as the audience can. That's because terps are often positioned either behind or under the speaker audio output. I've also had the opposite problem, being positioned too close to huge speakers. The problem then is distortion.

Speakers are designed and positioned only for the audience that is facing them. For anyone else, there is either a "dead zone" of sound or massive distortion.[/QUOTE]

Wow! I learned something new today! Interesting.

 

[deafannieboo]

heres something to think about... I use Remote C.A.R.T. in my college classes. rarely are there any captions/subtitiles on films. so usually i tell my professors at start of every semester that if they are going to show a film that doesnt have captions to let me know ahead of time and i will have my captionist on Remote C.A.R.T. computer caption it for me. i place the professors mic near tv and get catpions to movie on my computer.
Anyone ever take college art history and have to watch films on arcitiecture w out captions becomes very creative in finding a way to get captions!!! C.A.R.T. and Remote C.A.R.T. are a true God send!!!! i went from being a grade c and b student to makeing all a in every course! it was all a matter of communication bridging!

 

[Lighthouse77]

I grew up watching those educational videos without captioning and nobody even bothered to inquire if I knew what they were saying. One time, I fell asleep and ended up with a detention slip. I am telling u...people who work in public schools without a strong deaf program really do not have a clue on how to meet deaf chidlren's needs.

Have your mom put it in your IEP that all vidoes must be captioned.

happened to me too. I just daydreamed and doodled.

 

[VamPyroX]

I don't know about your particular situation but it is true that sometimes interpreters can't hear sounds coming from speakers as well as the audience can. That's because terps are often positioned either behind or under the speaker audio output. I've also had the opposite problem, being positioned too close to huge speakers. The problem then is distortion.

Speakers are designed and positioned only for the audience that is facing them. For anyone else, there is either a "dead zone" of sound or massive distortion.

The interpreter was where she always was... 2 feet in front of me. She has a history of being a complaining whining bitch who moans about everything if it doesn't go her way.

She actually walked out on me in class cuz she had to take her medication. If her medication was so important, she could simply tell the teacher about it in advance and leave the room just for a couple minutes so that she can pop a couple pills and take a drink from the water fountain.

But noooo... She had to leave class (when I had 15 to 20 minutes left of class) and never come back again. Seriously, does it take you 20 minutes to pop a couple pills that you leave in your purse that you carry around at all times? :roll:

Even when the deaf department chairperson tried to defend her, I pointed out what the interpreter could have done and she just gulped... then changed the subject by saying that I shouldn't be wasting her time and if I didn't leave, she would write me up.

 

[coolgirlspyer90]

hi guys, sorry i havent been in this topic for awhile. i had band stuff to do..

anyways. My school has this special thing called a Decoder. which helps the television to have captionings on old videos if it says it does but cannot turn them on. But my school havent bought me another one because the decoder that i used to have belonged to the middle schools in case other deaf students are going to go to the middle school where i used to go. But the high school that i currently go to now didnt bother to buy me one due to budget problems for the school. But thankfully our levy passed this year. So i don't know if they're going to get me a decoder or not. Because they are pretty expensive. ANd i have struggled so much without it throughout the year. Because with out it, i have to rely on other students who is taking notes to copy notes from them or have the teacher to print me the answers to the notes of the video or the dvd. But i really dont want to copy answers from other students when theres no captionings avaliable. For me i dont want them to think that i get the center of attention just because i'm deaf and i need "alot" of help and "requirements" for me to get thru high school. But mostly i want to prove to hearing people that I may be a little bit overwelming to get to know but I dont want to be the center of attention. Sometimes i do because i want them to understand my challenge of being deaf. SO...idk.

sorry, went off topic there for a little bit 0

 

[shel90]

hi guys, sorry i havent been in this topic for awhile. i had band stuff to do..

anyways. My school has this special thing called a Decoder. which helps the television to have captionings on old videos if it says it does but cannot turn them on. But my school havent bought me another one because the decoder that i used to have belonged to the middle schools in case other deaf students are going to go to the middle school where i used to go. But the high school that i currently go to now didnt bother to buy me one due to budget problems for the school. But thankfully our levy passed this year. So i don't know if they're going to get me a decoder or not. Because they are pretty expensive. ANd i have struggled so much without it throughout the year. Because with out it, i have to rely on other students who is taking notes to copy notes from them or have the teacher to print me the answers to the notes of the video or the dvd. But i really dont want to copy answers from other students when theres no captionings avaliable. For me i dont want them to think that i get the center of attention just because i'm deaf and i need "alot" of help and "requirements" for me to get thru high school. But mostly i want to prove to hearing people that I may be a little bit overwelming to get to know but I dont want to be the center of attention. Sometimes i do because i want them to understand my challenge of being deaf. SO...idk.

sorry, went off topic there for a little bit 0

Pls dont feel that way. U have every right to have equal access to the curriculm as your hearing peers do and if anyone is saying that you are doing this to get attention, they are sorely wrong.

At the Deaf school where I work at, all of the TVs are newer models due to the captioning feature. All the old TVs were thrown out.

 

[inmate23]

I live in nz and to blunt the teachers in mainstream are a waste of space. IEP is a joke I give up on school. If there were no captions the answer was too bad

 

[Reba]

The interpreter was where she always was... 2 feet in front of me. She has a history of being a complaining whining bitch who moans about everything if it doesn't go her way.

She actually walked out on me in class cuz she had to take her medication. If her medication was so important, she could simply tell the teacher about it in advance and leave the room just for a couple minutes so that she can pop a couple pills and take a drink from the water fountain.

But noooo... She had to leave class (when I had 15 to 20 minutes left of class) and never come back again. Seriously, does it take you 20 minutes to pop a couple pills that you leave in your purse that you carry around at all times? :roll:

Even when the deaf department chairperson tried to defend her, I pointed out what the interpreter could have done and she just gulped... then changed the subject by saying that I shouldn't be wasting her time and if I didn't leave, she would write me up.

It does seem that you got stuck with a less than professional interpreter.

I don't know what her meds were for but if her medical condition was interfering with her job performance maybe she needed to rethink her career.

It's a shame those things happen to deaf kids at school. So-called "mainstream" education is hard enough in the best situations without being made worse by unprofessional terps and other staff members.

 

[Reba]

...At the Deaf school where I work at, all of the TVs are newer models due to the captioning feature. All the old TVs were thrown out.

Our schools have up-to-date TVs; the problem is, the videos themselves were made without captions.

 

[Reba]

This is interesting:

Closed Captioning Decoders | National Association of the Deaf

 

[shel90]

Our schools have up-to-date TVs; the problem is, the videos themselves were made without captions.

The old videos, heh? Yea, they got thrown out also.

 

[Reba]

The old videos, heh? Yea, they got thrown out also.

Schools (including colleges) won't throw out their old videos because some videos don't have captioned versions.

What does your school do if there is no captioned version?

 

[Liebling:-)))]

When I was growing up the only captioned films I saw were foreign ones. I got to see some at a film theatre with my mom. Only I don't know if foriegn films still use captions. I think they started dubbing them.

Are there still any foreign films with captions?

We don´t have closed captions here in Europe countries but subtitles. USA is only country use those word "closed caption"

We have plenty of DVD with foreign movies with foriegn subtitles. I have many DVDs with 5 or 6 foreign languages and subtitles. You can pick any foreign language to hear or subtitles to read.

 

[shel90]

Schools (including colleges) won't throw out their old videos because some videos don't have captioned versions.

What does your school do if there is no captioned version?

We only order videos from a certain company called Captioned Media something like that. We serve deaf and hoh children so it wouldnt make sense if we get videos without captioning.

 

[Reba]

We only order videos from a certain company called Captioned Media something like that. We serve deaf and hoh children so it wouldnt make sense if we get videos without captioning.

I'm familiar with that company.

Unfortunately, the schools I've worked at, including the college, don't order their videos that way. I've given them the contact information for the Captioned Media Program but they said that the titles they needed to use weren't available there.