[Athen] question of captioning vs. ASL

[Howard Kramer]

Thanks Heidi and Ron.

-Howard

On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Heidi Scher <hascherdss at gmail.com> wrote:


> Hi Howard,

>

> I have to echo Ron's suggestion at contacting PEPNet.  But I can tell you

> from experience that I have had graduate students who were deaf and did not

> have literacy skills. We suspected that it was due to a reading disability

> based on other characteristics the students exhibited. (This was back in

> the "dark ages" when some believed that individuals who were deaf couldn't

> have learning disabilities. Thank goodness the field has past that false

> belief!)

>

> I know at one time the University of Arkansas at Little Rock was doing a

> tremendous job of including interpreters into their videos.

>

> Heidi

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> On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Ron <ronrstewart at gmail.com> wrote:

>

>> It was a considerable topic of conversation a few years back. I would

>> contact our friends at Pepnet on the topic. It paralleled the early work on

>> signing avatars, which seemed to have promise but could never deliver on

>> the promise.

>>

>> The short answer is yes but most likely not spliced into the video stream

>> but instead as it's own separate PnP display. I have seen it done very well

>> with the verbiage stream in one inbeded display and the ASL in a second.

>> From a teaching and learning perspective I always become concerned about

>> cognitive load in these complex info processing environs.

>>

>> One project I was involved in while at Oregon State worked at developing

>> multi-modal info streams and the end user could select the ones the wanted

>> in the learning space. A great project and the end product was amazing, but

>> so cost prohibitive to produce that it never went anywhere once the grant

>> ran out.

>>

>> Ron Stewart

>>

>> On Monday, July 6, 2015, Howard Kramer <hkramer at ahead.org> wrote:

>>

>>> I've been having a discussion with some colleagues over whether

>>> captioning is adequate as a means for access for all deaf or HOH students.

>>> Someone suggested that because of literacy issues some students might need

>>> ASL (spliced into the video in lieu of captioning). Has this issue ever

>>> come up for anyone. It would seem that any students in this demographic

>>> with literary skills that poor would not have the necessary skills for

>>> attending college or university. Just wanted to see what other thought

>>> about this.

>>>

>>> -Howard

>>>

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