<p>I'm a parent of a junior in high school, but I am also a freelance court reporter.</p>
<p>We had a wonderful national convention here in New Orleans this year, and I met so many CART providers. I was lucky enough to meet a couple of ladies who work at my son's number one choice and got great encouragement about his college.</p>
<p>I was curious if anybody out there in CC land has any children that use CART, are looking for CART, even are aware that it is out there. </p>
<p>I'm not selling the service, but I just think it is wonderful that there is something out there that allows deaf and hard of hearing people to get an education.</p>
<p>Also, if you have any advice, wishes, complaints, please pass them to your provider. We are always looking for ways to improve ourselves as court reporters, and I'm sure the wonderful people who specialize in this field would be very open to anything you would like to say.</p>
<p>By the way, are you aware that there are scholarships for the hearing impaired? Can’t recall who sponsors them (although I believe Oticon hearing aids may be one). Contact AHSA (Amer. Hearing & Speech Assoc) for information they may be able to provide.</p>
<p>Two points (actually one point and one question) regarding CART:</p>
<p>1) If you’re looking for this, it may be best to choose a large campus with extensive services and resources for disabled students or access to the resources of a city. Schools in smaller communities won’t have the providers locally, and will likely find trying to tap into remote court reporters for a student who has class at different non-consecutive times on different days and wants to use the service as well at evening events nearly logistically impossible. The student may claim that this is a needed ADA accommodation, but the school will probably be forced to look for alternative accommodations that are more practical. You’d be better served by tapping into a university that already provides this rather than consistently negotiating over how to reinvent the wheel.</p>
<p>2) If a student spends four years using CART rather than a signer and/or lip reading, how do they subsequently adapt to its absence in the workplace?</p>
<p>“I just think it is wonderful that there is something out there that allows deaf and hard of hearing people to get an education.”</p>
<p>I should point out that although CART is a great resource, lots of D/deaf and hard of hearing people get educated in all different kinds of ways–CART is not the only tool out there…there are FM systems, notetakers/speechreading, etc…there is also the option to use American Sign Language, either with an interpreter or at a Deaf college such as Gallaudet University or National Technical Institute of the Deaf (part of RIT).</p>