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 Huntington
Junior College received the Federal Grant to help fulfill the
immediate need for broadcast captioners and CART providers. YOUR support
made the difference.
Huntington Junior College thanks Senator Byrd and Congressman
Rahall for their support of the program.
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Here is why it is
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- Helps the 268,000 West Virginians and 28 million Americans that are deaf and
hard-of-hearing by training people to provide closed captioning and
CART (Communications Access
Real-Time Translation) services.
- There is a severe shortage of captioners now. They will not
be able to meet the government mandate of captioning all new TV
programming by 2006 without immediate training.
- Allows deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals to participate in
mainstream society through the use of CART.
- CART services provide instantaneous verbatim text records of
public hearings and events, ceremonies, legal proceedings and
classroom activities.
- Only 10% of deaf or hard-of-hearing individuals know
sign-language. The other 90% rely on captioning services.
- Broadcast captioners and CART providers average over $60,000 a year!
- Provides high paying,
advanced technology jobs to residents of West Virginia.
- Allows people to learn these skills without leaving the State to
get the education they need.
- Huntington Junior College is the only school in the state that
offers this training.
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The funds for this
project will be used for the following activities: |
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- Development of curriculum for captioning program;
- Student recruitment costs;
- Scholarships;
- Retraining of Court Reporters in captioning skills;
- Development of the distance learning aspect of the program.
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