State Outreach and Technical Assistance Centers Students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing: Beyond Accommodations Providing Reasonable Accommodations with Unreasonable Costs Cindy Camp Jacksonville State.
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State Outreach and Technical Assistance Centers Students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing: Beyond Accommodations Providing Reasonable Accommodations with Unreasonable Costs Cindy Camp Jacksonville State University Alabama SOTAC Katherine J. Bruni Georgia Perimeter College Georgia SOTAC Goals To share information about PEPNet’s State Outreach and Technical Assistance Centers (SOTACs) and how they can be a resource to you. To share information about innovative strategies to reduce costs and provide accommodations for students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing. To share information about technology and options for interpreting and captioning, including C-Print. To share information about the Captioned Media Program. PEPNet PEPNet is a network of four regional centers. The consortium provides technical assistance and support to postsecondary institutions serving deaf and hard of hearing people. WROCC Western Region Outreach Center and Consortia CSUN MCPO Midwest Center for Postsecondary Outreach St. Paul Technical College NETAC Northeast Technical Center NTID PEC Postsecondary Assistance Education Consortium University of Tennessee PEC SOTAC s Louisiana Kentucky North Carolina Alabama Jacksonville State University Oklahoma Georgia Arkansas Georgia Perimeter College Florida Virginia Mississippi Texas South Carolina The Virgin Islands Providing Accommodations Interpreting Speech-to-Text or Captioning Captioned Media Program Remote services Web Based Instruction … Finding Interpreting Services … www.rid.org Interpreting Agencies Creative Incentives Parking, Tuition, Fitness, Discounts, Housing… Offer Continuing Education and/or Diagnostics Borrow/Barter Interpreter Training Programs Establish Partnerships with Other Institutions – PROJECT REACH Speech-to-Text Services CART http://www.ncraonline.org/ C-Print http://www.ntid.rit.edu/cprint/what_cprint.php Typewell http://www.typewell.com/ Captioned Media Program What is it? Who is eligible to join? IT’S FREE What else do they do? Educational, self-help, and classic titles. VHS, CD Rom, DVD, Web streaming. What does it cost? Anyone with a hearing loss or working in the field. What types of materials are available? A free loan library of open captioned media. They are your source for all things related to captioning: guidelines to captioning, recommended captioning agencies, finding captioned titles, etc. www.cfv.org What’s the big deal about captions? Captions benefit everyone. Individuals with a hearing loss Individuals with other disabilities Children learning to read Individuals whose first language isn’t English Senior Citizens Less than 15% of the educational videos available for purchase are captioned. Even fewer educational DVD, CD-ROM, and other media are captioned. Common Misconceptions The caption decoder in a TV is a magic device that shows captions for all videos. All you have to do is know how to turn it on. Attaching a caption decoder or turning on the internal decoder requires a degree in engineering. Captions are distracting to hearing students. Common Excuses The information won’t be on the test. It’s only a short clip. The information is in the textbook and lecture as well. The interpreter can just tell the student what is going on. I can’t find a captioned version. This TV doesn’t show captions. It costs too much to caption a video. It takes too much time to add captions. The Basics All educational materials must be accessible. It’s the law. The quality of the captions is very important and quality costs. You must have permission from the producer to add captions to a commercially produced video. Where can I find captioned videos? Free-Loan: The Captioned Media Program (CMP) Purchase: “Bowker’s Complete Video Directory” and the CMP database. Encourage your school to establish a policy to only purchase captioned media. Captioning Guidelines Open-captioned format Pop-on method Upper and lower-case letters with descenders Proportional spacing The Captioning Key www.cfv.org 32 characters per line Helvetica Medium (or similar) … Remote Services … Education and Technology Working Together Projects and Resources The PantherCom Project & VSU Independent and Private Sector Vendors Video Remote Interpreting (VRI) Uses video-conferencing technology to provide interpreting services from off-site locations What’s needed? Web camera(s) Display screen Microphone/speaker Software Fast internet connection Accessible Web Based Instruction http://www.ualr.edu/adept/ Creative Solutions for Funding Sources … Resource Sharing … System Wide Agreements Board of Regents VR Agreements Subcontracts Between Institutions Sharing Interpreter Lists/Contacts … In House … Hire staff interpreters: pros/cons PEPNet Interpreter survey Hire part-time interpreters Benefits Swing schedules Consider student fee structure Bill other departments Other Considerations: English and High Stakes Testing Notetaking Online Notetaker Training http://www.netac.rit.edu/onlinenotetakertraining.html Assistive Listening Devices Resources PEPNet Resource Center (PRC) http://prc.csun.edu/ EdTrade http://www.gatfl.org User name: dsp Password: postsecondary Georgia Perimeter College Deaf/Hard of Hearing Only 0095 Reading/Writing Transition Resources Deaf Extreme April Gates 18 at Valdosta State University to Adventure Online Training http://www.pepnet.org/train.asp#gates Questions? Katherine Bruni Outreach Specialist, Georgia’s SOTAC English Instructor, to students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Georgia Perimeter College SOTAC Satellite: 324 Knots Cr. Woodstock, GA 30188 770-928-6785 v/tdd Cell phone: 404-406-8194 [email protected] Cindy Camp Outreach Specialist, Alabama’s SOTAC Disability Specialist In Deafness Jacksonville State University Disability Support Services 700 Pelham Road North Jacksonville AL 35968 256-782-8387 (v/tty) [email protected] … Remote Services … The Following List May Not Be Complete, and it is Ever Changing. Inclusion Should Not be Considered an Endorsement by the Postsecondary Education Programs Network. … Remote Interpreting … Birnbaum Interpreting Services 8555 16th Street - Suite 400 Silver Spring, MD 20902 301-587-8885 v/tty [email protected] www.bisworld.com Communication Service for the Deaf 102 Krohn Place Sioux Falls, SD 57103 866) 291-8267 Voice/TTY [email protected] www.csdinterpretingonline.com Communication Access Center (CAC) 1631 Miller Road Flint, MI 48503 810-239-3112 [email protected] www.cacdhh.org Deaf-Talk, Inc. 607 Washington Road - Suite 302 Pittsburgh, PA 15228 [email protected] 877-229-8119 www.deaf-talk.com Communication Access Network, Inc. 925 Wappoo Road – Suite B Charleston, SC 29407 866-411-8377 voice 877-411-8377 tty Daryl Crouse – President [email protected] www.caninterpreters.com Interpretek 1200A Scottsville Road - Suite 13 Rochester, NY 14624 [email protected] 888-273-0277 [email protected] www.interpretek.com … Remote Interpreting … Interpreters Inc. P.O. Box 604 Wake Forest, NC 27588 866-678-8686 [email protected] www.interpretersinc.com Interpreting Solutions Inc. 4369 S. Howell Avenue - Suite 305 Milwaukee WI 53207 414-727-8778 [email protected] www.interpretingsolutionsinc.com Network Interpreting Service, LLC 322 E. Main Street Suite 300 Burley, ID 83318 and 4201 Mt. Voss St. San Diego, CA 92117 800-284-1043 [email protected] www.ASLNIS.com PantherCom Project University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee PO Box 413 Mitchell Hall 120 Milwaukee, WI 53201 414-229-2343 Bambi Riehl – Director [email protected] www.uwm.edu/dept/panthercom Sign Language Associates Inc. 11002 Veirs Mill Road - Suite 506 Silver Spring, MD 20902 301-946-9710 v/tty [email protected] www.signlanguage.com Sign On, Inc. 1414 Dexter Avenue N. Suite 316 Seattle, WA 98109 206-632-7100 voice - 206-632-7200 tty [email protected] www.SignOnASL.com … Remote Interpreting … SignTalk America, LLC 55-02 Broadway Woodside, New York 11377 718-458-2211 Herb Amster, CEO [email protected] www.signtalkamerica.com Sorenson Communications Inc. 4393 South Riverboat Road - Suite 300 Salt Lake City, Utah 84123 801-287-9400 www.sorensonvri.com … Remote Speech-to-Text … Caption First P.O. Box 1924 Lombard, IL 60148 800-825-5234 [email protected] www.captionfirst.com Caption Reporters, Inc. 9450 Pennsylvania Avenue - Suite 20 Upper Marlboro, MD 20772 301-599-1899 [email protected] www.captionreporters.com Captions Unlimited of Nevada, Inc P.O. Box 20905 Reno, Nevada 89515 775-746-3534 www.captionsunlimited.com Cart Excellence,LLC 866-212-9704 [email protected] www.cartexcellence.com Carolinas Captioning 3635 Stokes Avenue - Suite B Charlotte, NC 28210 704.552.6753 [email protected] www.carolinas-captioning.com Communique Interactive Solutions, Inc. 540-775-7742 v - 540-775-1533 tty [email protected] www.text2u.com … Remote Speech-to-Text … Deaf Access Solutions 1819 Corcoran St NW - Suite B Washington DC, 20009 202-234-2899 [email protected] www.deafaccess.com RapidText 1801 Dove Street - Suite 101 Newport Beach, CA 92660 949-399-9200 v - 949-399-9273 tty [email protected] www.rapidtext.com Hear Ink St. Louis, MO 63114 314-427-1113 [email protected] www.hearink.com RealTime Reporters 831-335-7792 [email protected] www.rtreporters.com Quick Caption 4927 Arlington Avenue Riverside, CA 92504 951-779-0787 [email protected] www.quickcaption.com Texas Closed Captioning 310 East 34th Street Austin, TX * 78705 512-480-0210 [email protected] www.texascaption.com … Remote Speech-to-Text … Urban Caption 1999 Avenue of the Stars - Suite 1100 Century City, CA 90067 310-525-3504 300 Park Avenue - 17th Floor New York, New York 10022 212.572.6284 [email protected] www.urbancaption.com Viable Technologies 9401 Fox Hollow Drive Potomac, MD 20854 877-219-0662 [email protected] www.viabletechnologies.com PantherCom Project University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee PO Box 413 Mitchell Hall 120 Milwaukee, WI 53201 414-229-2343 Bambi Riehl – Director [email protected] www.uwm.edu/dept/panthercom