Arizona Commission of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Guest Lecture

Question 1

What does CART stand for?

Answer 1

Communication
Access
Real-time
Translation

Question 2

What is ASR caption?

Answer 2

Automatic speech recognition
Generated by AI
May not be accurate
Different than CART (which is live captioning)

Question 3

What distinguishes between Deaf and hard of hearing?

Answer 3

How they identify
Both could be any level of hearing loss
Primary language for Deaf is signed and for hard of hearing is spoken (most hard of hearing people don’t know/use ASL)
Hard of hearing people may not self-advocate as much as Deaf people

Question 4

What is AMPHL

Answer 4

Association of medical professionals with HL
Their mission is to provide information, promote advocacy, and strive to create a diverse, robust network for individuals with HL in working in healthcare
Their vision is to promote equal opportunities in the hearing professions among the Deaf and hard of hearing