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Student Legal Cases For Captions Almost Settled

The year 2009 was significant for student classroom captions in the US. Three students with hearing issues – two high school students in California, and the other, a physician student at Creighton Medical School (MA), began legal challenges to use captions as a favored support, beyond classroom FM systems and additional assistive listening devices. Creighton

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10 years ago 2 Comments Captions, Education, Hearing, Smartphones, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Student Fights Four Years For Classroom Captions

For four years, Delanie Harrington, a student at California’s Poway High School, has sought classroom captions – and her family continues the fight, to ensure future students access these captions and ‘live’ classroom notes. Read: Poway High School student fights for education Harrington’s story is very typical of families who actively break ground in education systems,

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11 years ago 2 Comments Captions, Education, Hearing, Smartphones, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,