Deaf Teen Open To IT Work After Caption Support

Having live classroom-captions in school has led a deaf teen in Australia, to consider a career in computer programming or in the general IT field.

Read: Real-time captions for deaf HSC student

Interestingly, the student emphasises how classroom-captions have boosted his literacy skills, while providing a detailed set of notes from each class.

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Comments: 3
  1. 12 years ago

    This piece is relevant with Ireland launching its ICT Action Plan, and students being encouraged to consider careers in the IT field http://bit.ly/xjXykl

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  2. Michelle
    12 years ago

    Captioning is great but not a good subtisute for one on one interaction in the classroom, limiting social skills of deaf children.

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  3. 12 years ago

    Hi Michelle,

    Hope you’re well since our last contact. We agree, captioning is great, and is best used when children also have the chance to use their social skills. In some cases, captioning can increase social interaction and group discussion by showing spoken dialogue on a laptop, tablet PC or a large screen in a room, to enable a topic to be discussed.

    As captioning devices get smaller (iPhones, netbooks, Nintendo game consoles), we anticipate greater uptake of this learning-support option.

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