CARTWheel's
CHECKLIST FOR CART PROVIDERS:
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CART is defined as: Communication Access Realtime Translation
Criteria for CARTWheel Professional Membership
CART: Communication Access Realtime Translation
CARTWheel: Network of professional CART providers
Checklist for Membership: (updated 2007)
Requirements for Steno Writers:
1. Demonstrate ability to write realtime at 180 wpm of literary-type material at 99% accuracy. This is a minimum standard. Speakers often speak at 200 wpm for stretches. This requirement does not mean students who have passed five-minute literary tests at 180 wpm.
2. Have no conflicts in your steno theory.
3. Have prefixes and suffixes defined in main dictionary - for building new words.
4. Can quickly and correctly realtime-spell words (finger-spell) that are not in dictionary.
5. Can paraphrase in realtime, i.e., re-state something more simply.
6. Know the differences among the needs of deaf, late-deaf, early-deaf, oral deaf,
and hard-of-hearing consumers. Have a great respect for sign language interpreters and know we do not take their place. Work as a team with sign interpreters and oral interpreters.
7. Know common acronyms, terms, and lingo, for the ADA, human services, ear anatomy, and communication (technology) devices.
8. Know some conversational sign language: thank you, fine, okay, can you read this; how, where, when, why, who, what; my name is ... (be able to fingerspell your name). Know the signs for: break, bathroom, teacher, student, class, e-mail, disk, and more.
9. Know ethics governing CART Providers/Reporters, respecting confidentiality of the consumer’s business and whereabouts; how to be in role of interpreter and not a participant. Be familiar with NCRA Guidelines for Professional Practice, and www.cartinfo.org, as well as www.CARTWheel.cc.
10. Be able to enlarge and re-color text; have CART page layouts with no line numbers, no page numbers, one of which should be for projected CART; i.e., has fewer characters per line, so that when text is enlarged, the text remains on the large screen.
11. Modify your translation software’s phonetics table to your writing style, and use it so that each consumer can read English instead of steno strokes.
12. Keep steno keys adjusted, so that what you hit is what you get!
13. Know how to hook up to LCD projector and turn on (and off while doing job prep) simultaneous display to projector or TV monitor. Have a projector or be able to rent an LCD projector (and/or a video projector and/or proper cables to project to a TV).
14. Have tray table and tripod, surge protector, power strip, small light, extension cords, and backup equipment and cables (especially realtime cable and power supplies).
15. Have outlines/tokens for the following:
PROFESSOR:
STUDENT:
NARRATOR:
AUDIENCE MEMBER:
MAN:
WOMAN:
CHILD:
(APPLAUSE)
(LAUGHTER)
(INAUDIBLE)
(PHONE RINGING)
(SIREN SOUND) -- and more as needed.
16. Can quickly prepare job dictionary and add "power defines" in realtime.
17. Have a back-up in mind and ready for CART jobs; have an extra copy of job dictionary in .RTF format to give your back-up CART provider.
18. Have in place clearly written and agreed-upon billing, payment and
confidentiality-of-disk arrangements before performing the CART work.
19. Keep striving for the CRR and CCP, and join CARTWheel and NCRA. Attend Continuing Education seminars on CART, and participate in on-line support forums.
20. Most of all, love being a professional CART Provider!
TO BE A PROFESSIONAL MEMBER OF CARTWHEEL, YOU MUST BE ENDORSED BY A PROFESSIONAL MEMBER OF CARTWHEEL AND BY A
CONSUMER WHO HAS USED YOUR SERVICES.
(Apprentice qualifications are listed below.)
Application for Professional Membership in CARTWheel, Referral Network of CART Providers:
BECAUSE we recognize the need to provide a meaningful system of referral of qualified CART Providers, each with deaf and hard-of-hearing sensitivity training towards consumers" and CART issues, to broadcasters, corporations, educational and other non-profit
institutions, and especially late-deafened, early-deafened, oral
deaf, deaf, and hard-of-hearing persons; to establish a network of co-professionals for assistance with technical tips, scheduling help and referrals through a directory, newsletter, and, for camaraderie, through meeting and socializing at the NCRA and CARTWheel Seminars and Conventions; to promote the dissemination of accurate and helpful information to potential CART Providers and consumers of CART services, We hereby establish this network, calling it CARTWheel, and
promote its symbol, "the wheel", as a symbol of progress,
cooperation, interdependence; each part giving strength to the whole.
We propose that rules of membership be as follows:
That each Professional Member....
Be endorsed by (1) a professional member of CARTWheel and (2) a deaf or hard-of-hearing consumer.
Pay a $ 100.00 yearly dues, each October 15th, which covers cost of administration expenses, newsletter, database, domain
registration, web host, answering e-mails from consumers and
businesses; referring CART to members listed in CARTWheel directory
and further to develop, monitor the CARTWheel website,
www.CARTWheel.cc (linked to NCRA"s website and additional sites
now included on our site"s home page); and commit to professional member criteria.
That each Apprentice Member....
Be endorsed by a professional member of CARTWheel and commit to
apprentice criteria (below).
Pay a $ 50.00 yearly dues, each October 15th, to cover
above-same.
Agree that all net profits be distributed equally to SHHH and ALDA at
year"s end, with financial report to CARTWheel members, and any
change in this distribution being voted on by a majority of its members at a yearly meeting.
Agree to work cooperatively with NCRA's CART Task Force to continue
to promote professionalism in this continued developing arena and to give input to the Task Force;
Agree to have an e-mail address and to be able to send/receive
communication in this venue.
Agree to share with others in the group, solutions to technical problems,
information about new equipment, terms, lingo, RT-writing tips; funny or poignant stories (as long as no code of ethics of confidentiality is broken), words of encouragement, cries for help, and offers to help.
Signature of Applicant:
_________________________________________________________
Date:
_________________________________________________________
Printed Name and Signature of CARTWheel Professional Member:
Endorser:_________________________________________________
Printed Name and Signature of CART Consumer:
Consumer:________________________________________________
Criteria for CARTWheel APPRENTICE
An Apprentice membership has been created to assist Court Reporters to advance their skills to become competent CART Providers; each
advancing their knowledge of deaf sensitivity issues, projection of
realtime and expanding knowledge within our growing fields of
technology.
Apprentice Applicants, must be endorsed by a CARTWheel Professional Member and commit to working with the criteria listed above, numbers 1-18, and to receiving future endorsement of a CART Consumer to advance towards
Professional Membership.
Each Apprentice commits to working with CART Providers, to attending NCRA and CARTWheel seminars and to studying the links on our home page, www.CARTWheel.cc.
TO BECOME A PROFESSIONAL MEMBER OF CARTWHEEL,
YOU MUST BE ENDORSED BY A PROFESSIONAL MEMBER OF CARTWHEEL AND BY A CART CONSUMER WHO HAS USED YOUR SERVICES.
TO BE AN APPRENTICE LEVEL WITHIN CARTWHEEL, YOU MUST BE ENDORSED BY A PROFESSIONAL MEMBER OF CARTWHEEL,
COMMITTING TO BECOME ENDORSED BY A CART CONSUMER WHO HAS USED YOUR SERVICES.
CARTWheel is a network of Professional CART Providers who offer mutual support, education, communication and referral.
Who needs information about our services?
Convention planners, businesses, post-production film houses, vocational rehabilitation counselors, schools, Internet event producers, and most especially, our consumers, who most often are deaf or
hard-of-hearing.
This information is available on our website, www.CARTWheel.cc.
Again, the main thrust of CARTWheel is CART, but as some professional CART Providers also provide captioning, we will list it as an "additional
service", like Sign Language or large-room display equipment or large staff.
To join as a professional member who qualifies with ALL of the
above-listed checklist requirements, fill out this form, have it endorsed by a CARTWheel member and a CART consumer, return this page
via a postal service, with your yearly dues,
$100.00 for Professional Membership ($ 75.00 for International Professional Memberhsip)
To join as a apprenctice member who qualifies with ALL of the above
apprentice requirements, fill out this form, have it endorsed by a
CARTWheel member, return this page via a postal service, with your
yearly dues,
$50.00 for Apprentice level.
Thank you for your trust and faith. Hey, Spokes, let's roll!
Please return this page, enclose a check payable to Monette Benoit, mark it "For CARTWheel" and send to:
Monette Benoit, 1244 Vista Bonita, # 1114, New Braunfels, TX 78130
CHOOSE A LEVEL:
__________
$ 100.00 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP (entitles you to e-mails and Full
Membership website listing)
$ 75.00 INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP (entitles you to e-mails and Full Membership website listing)
_________
$ 50.00 APPRENTICE LEVEL (entitles you to e-mails, website
"Apprentice" listing)
Name:___________________________________________________
Certifications:______________________________________________
E-mail address:____________________________________________
Fax No.:__________________________________________________
Website, if any:_____________________________________________
Business Name____________________________________________
Business mailing address:___________________________________
_________________________________________________________
City, State, Zip:_____________________________________________
Work Phone:_______________________________________________
Home address:____________________________________________
City, State, Zip_____________________________________________
Home Phone:______________________________________________
Steno Software:____________________________________________
Steno Writer:______________________________________________
Notebook Computer:________________________________________
CART Equipment: (please list brand names to be included in CARTWheel directory listing)
TV Display________________________________________________
Overhead Display___________________________________________
Enlarging Software (name)____________________________________
Splitter Box________________________________________________
Assistive Listening Device____________________________________
Speakerphone on second phone line?
_________________________________________________________
Other CART Equipment:
_________________________________________________________
Do you know ASL? ______Other Sign Language?_______________
Have you attended CART training on Deaf/HOH Culture and Sensitivity?
________
Where, when?_________________________________________
**CART Experience: (# years) ______ ** Will you CART to a large
screen?________________
**One-on-one projection_____________________________________
**Large Group_____________________________________________
**Broadcast Captioning______________________________________
Send application and check with yearly dues to be listed in online Directory:
Monette Benoit,
1244 Vista Bonita, # 1114
New Braunfels, TX 78130
CARTWheel's
CHECKLIST FOR CART PROVIDERS:
(Click here for an Acrobat .PDF file version of this page)
CART is defined as: Communication Access Realtime Translation
Criteria for CARTWheel Professional Membership
CART: Communication Access Realtime Translation
CARTWheel: Network of professional CART providers (www.CARTWheel.cc)
Checklist for Membership: (updated 3/27/2007)
Requirements for Voicewriters:
1. Be able to Voice-write at 99% on 180 wpm literary material. This is a minimum standard. Speakers often speak at 200 wpm for stretches. This requirement does not refer to students who have passed five-minute literary tests at 180.
2. Have no conflicts in your voicewriting theory.
3. Have prefixes and suffixes defined in personal vocabulary - for building new words.
4. Can quickly and correctly realtime-spell words that are not in your dictionary.
5. Be able to paraphrase on the fly – i.e., re-state a sentence more simply
6. Know the differences among the needs of deaf, late-deaf, early-deaf, oral deaf, and hard-of-hearing consumers. Have a great respect for sign language interpreters and know we do not take their place. Work as a team with sign interpreters and oral interpreters.
7. Know common acronyms, terms, and lingo, for the ADA, human services, ear anatomy, and communication (technology) devices.
8. Know some conversational sign language: thank you, fine, okay, can you read this; how, where, when, why, who, what; my name is ... (be able to fingerspell your name). Know the signs for: break, bathroom, teacher, student, class, e-mail, disk, and more.
9. Know ethics governing CART Providers/Reporters, respecting confidentiality of the consumer’s business and whereabouts; how to be in role of interpreter and not a participant. Be familiar with NCRA Guidelines for Professional Practice, and www.cartinfo.org, as well as www.CARTWheel.cc.
10. Be able to enlarge and re-color text; have CART page layouts with no line numbers, no page numbers, one of which should be for projected CART; i.e., has fewer characters per line, so that when text is enlarged, the text remains on the large screen.
11. Be able to speak “phonetically” by pronouncing words and word parts distinctly so it translates accurately for the consumer. Example: “oral – ism”
12. Keep your voice healthy, so that what you say is what is translated.
13. Know how to hook up to an LCD projector and turn on and off simultaneous display to projector or TV monitor. Own a projector or have access to one for large groups.
14. Have tray table and tripod (in case there’s no table for you), surge protector, power strip, extension cords, small light, and backup equipment and cables.
15. Have outlines/tokens for the following: Voice command suggestions precede.
PROMACK = PROFESSOR:
STUMACK = STUDENT:
NARMACK = NARRATOR:
MEM-MACK = AUDIENCE MEMBER:
MAN-MACK = MAN:
WOMACK = WOMAN:
CHIMACK = CHILD:
APPLAUSE APPLAUSE = (APPLAUSE)
LAUGH LAUAGH = (LAUGHTER)
AUDMACK = (INAUDIBLE)
PHONEMACK = (PHONE RINGING)
SIRMACK = (SIREN SOUND) -- and more as needed.
16. Can quickly prepare job dictionary and add words on the fly.
17. Make a backup of your vocabulary and burn it to a CD.
18. Have in place clearly written and agreed-upon billing, payment and
confidentiality-of-disk arrangements before performing the CART work.
19. Keep striving for the CRR and CCP, and join CARTWheel and NCRA Attend continuing education events re CART, and participate in on-line communities.
20. Most of all, love being a professional CART Provider!
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