Re: Accessible Radio for the Deaf and Blind: Cheryl Heppner

Accessible Radio for the Deaf and Blind gives the beginning of the press conference video viewable from http://www.i-cart.net by clicking on "(press conference video)" on the left . This is an excerpt from a further part of that video, where Cheryl Heppner, Executive Director of NVRC and deaf since the age of 7, explains concretely what live captioned videos will enable deaf people to do.
For more information about this conference, see http://www.harris.com/view_pressrelease.asp?act=lookup&pr_id=2315 .

The English text transcript of this video is given in http://innovateblog.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/live-radio-captioning-for-the-deaf/ .

Update: innovateblog.wordpress.com has disappeared, but the post with the transcript of this video was saved (minus the pictures) by the Internet Archive in http://web.archive.org/web/20090309065627/http://innovateblog.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/live-radio-captioning-for-the-deaf/

I'm one of the thirty one million people in
the United States who are deaf

or hard of hearing.

a number that continues to grow

NPR labs and its partner are on the verge
of making many of my dreams come true.

Beyond having that really crucial emergency information,

captioned radio could also open up a world I've never had.

because I lost my hearing before my seventh birthday

When I am stuck in Washington's legendary Beltway gridlock,

I could check the traffic report

and find out why,

what my best route would be.

I could check the sports scores

and follow the games for all my favorite
teams.

i could know why my husband is always
laughing so uproariously

when he listens to "Car Talk."

and I could annoy him

by singing along badly to the lyrics
of his favorite songs.

i can't wait!
Thanks.