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Take Action Now for More Captioners and Realtime Writers
By advocacy | June 10, 2008
The U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate are currently considering the College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007 (H.R. 4137, S. 1642), better known as the Higher Education Reauthorization Act. This bill includes language to create a competitive grant program to train realtime writers to provide captioned information and communication access millions of Americans who are deaf or hard of hearing. The NAD supports this legislative action which was put forward by the National Court Reporters Association. Through this legislation, we hope to dramatically increase the number of qualified broadcast captioners and Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) providers. To make this a reality, we need your help. Please take a few minutes to urge your Senators and Representative to vote for the Higher Education Reauthorization Act and maintain the language creating a program to train more realtime writers by clicking on this link:
http://www.congressweb.com/cweb4/index.cfm?orgcode=ncra&hotissue=27
Take action NOW for more captioners!
Topics: General |
June 13th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
As the accessible media coordinator for San Francisco State University, I can’t emphasize enough the need and importance of continuing the training and growth of caption providers.
Please vote for the Higher Education Reauthorization Act and restore a just and equitable form of access to education.